Women's Studies (WOMN)

Pauline Jewett Institute
of Women's Studies
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

WOMN 3809 [0.5 credit]

Feminist Approaches

This course uses an interdisciplinary approach in introducing students to emerging feminist literatures in the humanities and in the social, natural and applied sciences. Themes, issues and conflicts in feminist theory will be considered including debates around the concept of `woman', the politics of difference, feminist knowledge, power, the body, and performances of gender.
Precludes additional credit for WOMN 3808 [1.0] (no longer offered).
Prerequisite: third-year standing, and WOMN 1808 or FYSM 1402 or FYSM 1403.
Lectures and discussion three hours a week.