Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Women Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) provides a rich and complex understanding of a range of socially informed experiences as they relate to race, gender, class, indigeneity and sexuality.
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Nicole Charles was still an undergraduate student when she became interested in vaccine hesitancy. At the time, she was studying the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine in Canada. Now an assistant professor of Women and Gender Studies in the Department of Historical Studies at UTM, Charles continues to focus on reluctance related to the HPV vaccine.
Women applying to jobs in male-dominated fields often try to overcome sexism by altering their cover letters to sound less feminine. But that practice might actually be hurting their chances of landing a job, a new study out of U of T Mississauga reveals.
“Groundbreaking” research from U of T Mississauga is creating a new record of the unique experiences of LGBTQ2+ people living in Canada’s suburbs. The Queer Peel Oral History Project collects first-person oral histories from current and former LGBTQ2+ residents of Peel Region and establishes an important new archive of suburban queer experiences.
Sample Courses
A look at Indigenous feminist scholarship and activism in North America.
The course examines how computer technologies facilitate women's participation in cyberspace and how women define and construct their involvement.
Drawing on theories and methods from feminist and sexuality studies, this course engages this question to understand the emergence of queer aesthetics as a response to social and political crisis.
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