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Revision 1 is closed for registrations, replaced by current version
Revision 1 closed, replaced by current version.
Delivery mode: Individualized study.
Credits: 3 - Social Science
Prerequisite: None
Precluded course: WMST 267 and WMST 300. (WMST 266 may not be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for WMST 267 and WMST 300.)
Centre: Centre for Work and Community Studies
WMST 266 has a Challenge for Credit option.
Course website
WMST 266 examines questions that women's studies raise about how knowledge is constructed in many academic disciplines. Tracing continuities and conflicts in feminist debates as they have emerged over the past twenty-five to thirty years, the course examines the problem of women's exclusion from western knowledge and how feminists have rethought what we know and how we know it from the perspectives of women's lives. Topics explored include the development of women's studies, feminist theory and research methods, representations of women in literature and history, women and popular culture, social inequality, violence and male power, women and work, gendered social policy, women's health, women and education, family, marriage, motherhood and reproduction.
Part 1 Learning about Women: Establishing the Questions, Changing the Terms
Unit One: Introducing Women's Studies
Unit Two: Thinking from Women's Lives
Unit Three: Representing Women
Unit Four: Body Politics
Unit Five: Social Inequality, Violence and Male Power
Unit Six: Doing Women's Studies
Part 2 The Social and Cultural Construction Gender: Making and Remaking "Woman"
Unit Seven: Never Done: Women at Work
Unit Eight: Social Policy as if Women Counted
Unit Nine: Women's Health
Unit Ten: Women and Education
Unit Eleven: Family, Marriage, Motherhood and Reproduction
Each unit consists of an introduction; a list of student objects, so that you will know exactly what you should achieve by the end of the unit; assigned readings; thought questions; commentaries, which provide additional information on the subjects covered by the readings; and a list of supplementary readings and references.
To receive credit for WMST 266, you must achieve a course composite grade of at least "D" (50 percent). The weighting of the composite grade is as follows:
Assign. 1 Oral Review | Assign. 2 Oral Review | Assign. 3 Short-answer Test (two 500 word essays) | Research Project (1250-1500 words) | Final Essay | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
5% | 5% | 20% | 35% | 35% | 100% |
Note: All written assignments are open book. To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.
Robinson, Victoria and Diane Richardson, eds. Introducing Women's Studies. 2nd edition. New York: New York University Press, 1997.
Nuzhat, Amin Frances Beer, Kathryn McPherson, Andrea Medovarski, Angela Miles, and Goli Rezai-Rashti, eds. Canadian Woman Studies: An Introductory Reader. Toronto: Inanna, 1999.
The course materials include a reading file, a study guide, and a student manual.