Class Notes for Women and Gender Studies at University of Toronto St. George

Difference between household and family: HOUSEHOLD Commensality (sharing) Co-residentiality (co-habiting) FAMILY (POPULAR UNDERSTANDINGS) Kinship and blood relations What is a family? Agroup o...

Gender and Violence Individual - Structural Forms of Violence Intersectionality and Gender Violence Violence, Colonialism and Indigenous Women Responses to Gender Violence Guest Speaker: EllieAde Kur - Silence is Violence ...

Reproductive Rights and Sexual Health 1. Formulating Reproductive Rights and Reproductive Justice 2. Sexual Health Education Sexual Health and Reproductive Justice Solidarity Need to stand up for those who cant stand up fo...

WGS373H1-S Gender and Violence Week 5, Class 9: Wednesday, July 31, 2017 Violence and the Everyday Details How does intersectionality and violence how do you take up the theme in gen...

Lecture 10: Gender in a Transnational World Critical Thinking (Feminist Curiosity, Feminist Surprise) History Intersectionality Difference: Beyond Binaries, Beyond Distorted relationships Connection (Proximities, intimacie...

Lecture 9: Digital Feminist Activism Wednesday, March 21, 2018 6:11 PM How and why digital Feminist Activism has an edge over offline feminist activism? Cheaper Less time consuming More effective Incr...

Lecture 8: Sporting Goods The Wider/Contemporary Context for a Discussion of Sports The historical grounding of masculinity in force and power has been eroded by the willingness of the legal system to inter...

Lecture 7: The Beauty Industry The Beauty Industry Representation: What is it and why is representation a feminist issue? Representing Ideal Bodies Gender and the Commodity - Image System The Male Ga...

Lecture 5: Prison Industrial Complex Prison-Industrial Complex The Prison-Industrial Complex Law and Order Discourses Structural Critiques Producing the Gender Binary Whats at Stake for WGS? ...

Lecture 4: Gender and Welfare State Gender and Welfare State The welfare state and social citizenship The state as a site of feminist activism Deserving and undeserving mothers Neolib...

Lecture 3: Emotional Labour Emotional Labour Changing work: Manufacturing to Service Changing notions of work Emotional labour and feeling rules Aesthetic Labour Ser...

Lecture 2: Caring Labour Social Reproduction: The physical, mental and emotional (caring) labour involved in the everyday and intergenerational maintenance of life itself Caring Labour: The work of looking after the phy...

Lecture 1: Gender in a Transnational World Wednesday, January 10, 2018 6:03 PM Outline Historicizing the Nuclear Family Gender Division of Labour Approaches to the Household Queering Social Reproductio...

September 17, 2018 Environmental Justice and Settler Colonialism Settler Colonialism - A global and transnational phenomenon, and as much as a thing of the past as a thing of the present. There is no such thing ...

091918 WGS Class Two 1 Definitions of Feminism 2 Interrogation Feminism 3 The Dimensions of Success 4 Expressing Feminism Support for assignment: Course reading Lectures Assignment instructions in lecture Tutorials Of...