{"id":56846,"date":"2020-11-27T11:44:33","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T16:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps-gsws\/?page_id=56846"},"modified":"2026-02-25T14:50:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:50:24","slug":"gwst","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/laps\/gsws\/gwst\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender & Women's Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What do Beyonc\u00e9, Lizzo, Lady Gaga, Billie Eilish and Madonna have to offer feminism and gender studies? And what about Tynomi Banks, Backxwash, Peaches and Laverne Cox? Our Gender and Women\u2019s Studies Program shows you how to critically analyze and identify intersections of gender, race, class, age, ability and sexuality as they operate in popular culture, your everyday lives, art and science, law and politics, not to mention economies, societies and cross-culturally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our dynamic, award-winning faculty have been leaders in the study of women and gender in Canada and internationally for three decades. Our unique courses engage in critical discussions about the significance of feminism and gender to race, sex, indigeneity, class, ability and vice versa. You will explore how the food we eat reveals the inner workings of neoliberal power and economies. You will be introduced to activism as a method that thwarts multiple and compounding forms of violence. You'll also explore contemporary issues such as COVID-19, and ask important questions about current and future impacts of COVID-19 for BIPOC folks locally and transnationally, and the role of heteronormative gender and whiteness in these outcomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you study, you\u2019ll develop skills to support you in many career paths \u2013 graduates have gone on to work in the public and private sectors in law, social work, counselling, therapy, policy and social justice, and have pursued post-graduate work and professional degrees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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