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GSWS 1020E INTRODUCTION TO GENDER AND WOMEN'S STUDIES
This course is an introductory and interdisciplinary survey of the diverse and changing roles of gender, sex, and sexuality in contemporary society. Together we will tackle several questions over the course of the year, including: How do gender and women's studies contribute to our thinking of particular issues, institutional practices, and changing global dynamics? How do principles of feminist thought allow us to navigate controversial issues, including those related to tensions or exclusions in resistance movements? What are the possibilities and responsibilities of local and international feminist interventions for social justice?

We will explore, among other topics, the following: challenges to the sex- and gender binary, including transgender, non-binary, and intersex identities; intersectionality and solidarities across gender, race, class, and ability; constructions of masculinities and femininities; the operation of state power on gender, sexual, and other minorities; colonialism and Indigenous resistances; and activism and protest, including through literature and art. Above all, in this class, we will strive to make connections between our everyday lives, global structures, and the work for gender equality, equity, and freedom.

GSWS 1021F INTRODUCTION TO SEXUALITY STUDIES
This course is an interdisciplinary half-year course that will introduce students to the field of sexuality studies. It will examine this field through several different approaches: theoretical, literary, visual, cultural and historical. The aim will be to explore questions of identity and representation as they relate to sexuality: how are sexual identities formed? Are they essential or constructed? Who controls representations of sexuality? Why do we think of certain sexualities as normal and others as deviant? Within this context, we will analyze how certain expressions of sexuality are socially excluded and devalued in the name of a sexual norm.

GSWS 1022G GENDER, JUSTICE, CHANGE
The 21st century is a period of accelerating change focused around issues of gender, justice and activism. This interdisciplinary course will introduce students to the ways in which movements for justice and change are informed by and take up gender issues in struggles for social justice, economic empowerment, education, health, poverty alleviation, human rights, environmental protection, peace-building, good governance and political representation. A variety of case studies and examples will be used to highlight the ways in which women and other marginalized groups organize and agitate for change, resist oppression and theorize the concept of justice.

GSWS 1023G GAY LIFE AND CULTURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: BEYOND ADAM AND STEVE
Modern gay identities are defined by their integration into liberal capitalism and multicultural democracy. A once marginalized group now benefits from unprecedented social mobility. This course will survey the impact of a shifting market and new federal policies on topics like the social politics of gay spaces, gentrification, art and culture and more. Students will gain a historical understanding of gay culture and an interdisciplinary set of texts to analyze an ever multiplying set of identities that fit within gay culture. By the end of this course, students will be introduced to topics in gay and lesbian studies, queer theory and gender studies and have a set of critical tools to approach these topics from music studies, political theory and sociology.

GSWS 1024F INTRODUCTION TO EQUITY, DIVERSITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS
This introductory course surveys theory and practice in the fields of equity, diversity, and human rights. The course addresses how equity, diversity, and human rights policies and practices respond to social difference and relations of power; as well, we will examine arguments about multiculturalism as a strategy to promote social inclusion, the rights of minoritized groups, and the politics of affirmative action. Towards these goals, we will take up readings about these issues from disciplines such as: anti-racism, feminism and gender studies, sexuality, disability, education, and legal studies. This also includes discussions of relevant case studies that highlight contemporary debates. Therefore, from different vantage points, the course examines some of the following questions: How are equity, diversity and human rights shaped by political and state interests? What are (some of) the limits and possibilities of institutionalized, liberal approaches to equity and diversity? What are human rights and what does it mean to have such rights? And how are these rights contested and protected?

GSWS 1030G INTRODUCTION TO BLACK STUDIES
Black Studies is comprised of the knowledge production practices and worldviews among African and African descendant peoples across the globe. It is rooted in rich histories, cultures, and philosophies that have given rise to anti-colonial, anti-racist, the Negritude, Pan-African and civil rights movements, including #BlackLivesMatter. This survey course introduces students to foundational debates, ideas, and practices in the Black intellectual tradition. With an emphasis on interdisciplinarity, course materials include book chapters, journal and magazine articles, music, film, art, and poetry. We will locate contemporary topics (e.g., identity, aesthetics, gender, race, sexuality, and popular culture, etc.,) in historical frameworks, with a focus on resilience and resistance in Black life. The purpose of the course is to deepen our understanding of how social, political, economic, and cultural issues are taken up in the Black intellectual-activist tradition.

GSWS 2291G INDIGENOUS WOMEN IN THE ARTS IN CANADA: CULTURAL TRADITIONS, SURVIVAL, AND COLONIAL RESISTANCE NEW COURSE!
One of the main objectives of this course will be to unravel how human beings become categories that expand beyond the seemingly binary divide between the sexes, the races and the have and have-nots. We will consider the real-life experiences of women or two-spirit peoples through an examination of texts from the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, feminist studies, and queer studies, among others. In addition, our examination of popular culture, such as films, television shows, music videos, and clips from the internet, will provide thoughtful, and often provocative, examples of the complex representations of race, gender, class, and sexuality in our society.Antirequisite(s):Indigenous Studies 2682F/G, Art History 2634F/G.Prerequisite(s):Indigenous Studies 1020E, GSWS 1020E, or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G,or GSWS 1030F/G, or 1.0 from Art History 1640 or the former VAH 1040 or two of Art History 1641A/B, 1649A/B or the former VAH 1041A/B VAH 1045A/B, or 1.0 course or special permission from Program.

GSWS 2414B BLACK LIVES AND EXPERIENCES  (NEW COURSE!)
Black populations in the Black Diaspora defy simple characterizations. In this course, we will examine the experiences of Black people through an ethnographic exploration of their lives. The close analysis of ethnographic monographs and articles will illuminate the ways in which race, gender, ethnicity, class, sexuality, ability, nationality, and other factors, shape the everyday for Black people in different cultural contexts. An additional focus will be a consideration of the experiences of Black anthropologists as ethnographers and scholars who are broadening anthropological discourses. No prerequisites

GSWS 2415B HIP HOP FEMINISM NEW COURSE!
This course examines the roles of women in hip hop, and the cultural discourses surrounding them. Students will take into consideration elements of hip-hop culture, its malleable media forms, its origins, history of production and reproduction, and interdisciplinary, transnational, and intersectional approaches to the study of this cultural form. In doing so, throughout the term, students will analyze the production and creation of hip-hop by and featuring Black women and members of the LGBTQIA+ community. We will utilize texts including scholarly articles, music videos, visual albums, films (documentary and fiction) and social media networks to better grasp the commodification and politics of Black Studies and hip-hop feminism.

GSWS 2710G MARRIAGE: FEMINIST AND QUEER PERSPECTIVES
This course covers five themes: the history of marriage, primarily in the West; the transition from arranged marriage to companionate marriage; feminist attempts to render marriage egalitarian; capitalism and the growth of the wedding industrial complex; queer perspectives on both heterosexual and same-sex marriage. No prerequisites.

GSWS 3133F LESBIAN LIVES AND CULTURES
This course will explore what it means to identify as a lesbian today. With the move away from identity politics and the ascendance of queer as a challenge to identity categories, it will consider the place of lesbianism in contemporary North American culture and more globally. Attention will be paid to a variety of aspects of lesbian lives and to contemporary forms of lesbian experiences in relation to their historical antecedents. Themes will include intersectionality, activism, sex, literature, art and politics. Prerequisite(s):GSWS 2220E orGSWS 2273E or permission of the Department.

GSWS 3173G INTRODUCTION TO QUEER THEORY
What is queer theory, where did it come from, how is it changing? Examining key foundational texts in queer theory, the contexts for its emergence, and debates over its contemporary usefulness and direction, students in this course will trace the development of queer theory and investigate its current applications.Prerequisite(s):GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2273E, or permission of the Department.

GSWS 3324F CONTEMPORARY TOPICS IN CRITICAL RACE STUDIES
From black face performances, appropriation of cultural and spiritual practices, and its centrality in economic and other forms of social inequalities, race and racism persists. In this course, we will ask: What is race and its formations? How does it shift and change over time? Why do we remain so deeply invested in race/racism but are afraid to talk about it? And how is race debated and contested in the twenty-first century? We will explore these, and other questions, with sources from across disciplines (e.g., sociology, feminism, anthropology, literature), as well as in popular culture/media, and in liberation and anti-colonial movements. The course does not offer definitive answers about race, but rather explores its historical roots and contemporary manifestations. Prerequisite(s):GSWS 2220E or GSWS 2273E, or permission of the Department.

GSWS 3325G FEMINIST EMBODIED THINKING NEW COURSE!
In this course we will ask how we come to know the world? Calculative thinking that sees the world as a storehouse of resources has brought the earth to a point of climate catastrophe. It also separates us from the particular worlds we experience, from the relational worlds, the ones our bodies connect. Thinking that does not assume mind/body dualism and instead comes out of lived experience clearly differentiates from calculative thinking which prioritizes efficiency. Drawing from theories and methodologies such as critical phenomenology, authoethnography, critical race and critical disability feminisms, we follow the insight that thinking follows experience. We will focus on concrete, experiential and relational approaches to thinking, such as autoethnographical writing, recording environmental sounds, creating images, and perceiving alongside artworks.We will bring our embodied contact with the world in dialogue with feminist, Indigenous, and decolonial texts. Prerequisite(s):GSWS 2220E,or permission of the Department.

GSWS 3331G - IN YOUR SKIN: SEXUALITIES AND PERFORMANCE  NEW COURSE!
(cross-listed with Theatre Studies 3211G)
This course examines the relationship between sexuality and performance. Students will examine play texts and performance and study such topics as drag, transgendered roles and representation, and the role of gender and sexuality in the interpretation of a text or performance. Prerequisite(s):  or permission of the Department.

GSWS 3357G FEMINISM AND FEELINGS NEW COURSE!
This course takes an interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to explore how emotion, feeling, and affect variously function constitutively in relation to knowledge production, subjectivity, community formation, and activisms in feminist thought and movement. Together we will explore, among other topics and issues, the historical and gendered devaluation of feeling and emotion in western colonial logics; the gendered dimensions of affective labour/care work; the role of felt theory in anti-colonial and decolonial work; the work that archives of feeling do in transforming conventional understandings of trauma and its impacts; queer-feminist de-pathologization of bad feelings pleasure politics as a project for Black feminist liberation; intersections between the personal, the political, and the public, including as articulated in the Public Feelings Project (Feel Tank) and relations between activist fatigue and feminist hope. Prerequisite(s):GSWS 2220E,or permission of the Department

GSWS 3362F FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
Violence against women was a virtually invisible social problem until it was brought to light by feminist activists some 40 years ago. Since then, there have been a number of political and scholarly controversies surrounding this issue. Although this course focuses on Canada, it will also examine key aspects of these debates in Canada and the United States, as well as in other parts of the world. These theoretical issues will also be connected with practice, that is, with the front-line work that is undertaken in the community to counter gender-based violence, particularly male violence against women. Prerequisite(s): or permission of the Department.

GSWS 3440F GENDERED BLOOD: CRITICAL MENSTRUAL STUDIES NEW COURSE
This course considers menstruation and menstrual equity movements through interdisciplinary, intersectional, and cross-cultural perspectives, particularly work to de-stigmatize periods. Students will deconstruct essentialist narratives and include gender non-binary menstruators. Topics may include menstrual leave, environmental impact of disposable products, period-tracking apps and menstrual management technologies, and reduction in period poverty. Prerequisite(s):GSWS 1020E or 1.0 course from GSWS 1021F/G, GSWS 1022F/G, GSWS 1023F/G, GSWS 1024F/G, or GSWS 1030F/G, or special permission from the department.

GSWS 3450G BLACK JOY NEW COURSE!
Why is it a revolutionary act for Black people to experience joy? What are representations of Black joy? A hashtag, a mandate, and an ideal, Black joy occupies an important but at times unspoken space in the imaginations of Black people. In this interdisciplinary course, we will examine how enjoyment is experienced by Black populations and communities. We will consider examples of Black joy from different cultural contexts and its representation in popular culture, literature, cultural studies, history, and ethnography.The course will also interrogate how gender, sexuality, disability, and class shape the ways in which Black people experience joy in the world.We will discuss Afrofuturism, Audre Lorde, Black eroticism, Black Girl Magic, Carnival, and Janelle Monae, among other topics.Ultimately, this course will demonstrate how Black joy represents modes of resistance, renewal, and healing for Black people around the world.Pre or Corequisite(s): or . Students can request special permission to enroll in this course without the prerequisites.

English 3915E THE LIVES AND LITERATURE OF BLACK NORTH AMERICANS  NEW COURSE!
Through reading a variety of genres (poetry, autobiographies, fiction, histories, speeches, letters, legal briefs), we consider what it means to be Black in North America. We ask: how do the experiences of Black Canadians and Black Americans compare? How do Black Canadian and Black American authors influence, engage, and respond to one another? How do the histories of each nation affect Black authors? In analyzing this rich body of literature, we contemplate the diverse experiences, including joys and sorrows, struggles and successes, of Black North Americans. The course includes field trips to local Black history sites and engagement with Black community organizations, including the Fugitive Slave Chapel at Fanshawe Pioneer Village, the Black Mecca Museum, and the London Black History Coordinating Committee.

*This course will count toward the Black Studies Minor. If interested in taking this course, please reach out to Dr. Green-Barteet, Undergraduate Chair of GSWS.

GSWS 4461G GENDER RELATIONS IN POST-CONFLICT SETTINGS: UNDERSTANDING DIVERSITY AND DYNAMICS
This course aims to explore women's roles in conflict and post-conflict scenarios with a gender and feminist approach. We begin by looking at the intersection of gender, conflict, and post-conflict. The course covers the analysis of the difficulties faced by women, sexual minorities, and people with disabilities in the aftermath of conflicts, with a particular focus on how they have been systematically oppressed. This includes exploring social issues such as human trafficking, poverty, sexual and gender-based violence and violations of reproductive rights. Through this gendered approach, students will comprehend the various actors and intricate processes involved in post-conflict reconstruction processes, as well as how these affect decisions, mobility, (re)settlement, and post-conflict experiences.Prerequisite(s):GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department

GSWS 4462F CULTIVATING CARE: CARE ETHICS AND INTERDEPENDENCE
In this seminar, students will explore various perspectives on care to engage critically with, redefine and relocate what care is, and who participates in care and all its affective qualities. Toward this aim, students will engage with academic and non-academic writing, films, and creative outlets that exhibit interdisciplinary fields of knowledge and methodology. Drawing on feminist, queer, trans, disability, Black, POC and Indigenous writings, the course highlights the power and limitations of care, as well as its material, ethical, and affective formations.The course begins by identifying care as a viable tool for surviving the precarity of our worlds, with the latter part of the course guiding students in building a foundation for fostering a critical and intersectional engagement with care as theory and practice. Prerequisite(s): or permission of the department.

GSWS 4463F SCREENING SEX
This course examines the representation of sexuality in film and video with a specific focus on the history of representation of queer identities in film. The course will begin by considering early cinema's representations of gay men and lesbians, including the production of particular stereotypes, and the effects of the Production Code on Hollywood, particularly in contrast to European cinemas. We will then look at post-Hays Code American film-making (both Hollywood and independent), at British, Canadian and Commonwealth filmmaking, at the rise of independent film and video in North America, and the challenge posed by New Queer Cinema in the 1990s to such still stereotypical Hollywood representations as In and Out and The Birdcage. Along the way, we will consider specific themes, such as coming out, representations of youth, intersections with race and class, and AIDS. The course will finish by looking at films that avoid the mainstreaming of certain types of queer representation (as is the case with films like Milk, Brokeback Mountain, The Kids are All Right and A Single Man), and the effects such films have on the viability of independent queer film making. The final films will thus emphasize the contemporary directions of queer film-making outside of Hollywood. Prerequisite(s):  or  or  or permission of the Department.

GSWS 4464G GENDER AND THE ENVIRONMENT
This course will focus on the linkages between gender, economy, environment, human development, race, class, sexuality, environmental racism and environmental justice. We will examine key contemporary environmental issues such as climate change, food security, the green economy, low-carbon development and degrowth; access to water, sanitation, and energy; pollution; and biodiversity conservation from feminist perspectives. Feminist and queer theory will also be used to question and destabilize binary categories such as natural/unnatural, nature/culture, normal/abnormal as they relate to our understandings of the environment.The course will explore how racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, colonialism, imperialism, and other forms of oppression have shaped and continue to shape environmental discourses. Course materials will include academic and non-academic literature (including policy and journalistic literature), activist texts, case studies, fiction, and film. Prerequisite(s):GSWS 2220E,or permission of the Department.

GSWS 4607F HISTORY OF WOMEN AND GENDER RELATIONS IN AFRICA
In the past African women were powerful leaders, strong economic contributors and respected members of their extended families. This course will examine these historical roles as well as factors that undermined African women's status and changed gender relations, such as slavery, economic forces and colonialism.Prerequisite(s):GSWS 2220E, or permission of the Department.