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Spring 2018 Courses GSWS 200-3 Feminism Without Borders Thursdays: 14:30 – 17:20
Mandy Koolen
This course will explore the interrelationship between local and global manifestations of feminist activism in both the economic south and the economic north. We will examine the reasons that various postcolonial, Indigenous, and transnational feminists have problematized the notion of global sisterhood and the valuable insights and changes that have resulted from their critiques of the Eurocentrism of certain types of Western feminism (e.g. liberal feminism, radical feminism, and global feminism). While attending to the dangers associated with conflating the experiences of women living in diverse parts of the world, we will also consider how cross-cultural collaboration can proceed in a respectful manner with an incorporation of diverse women s voices.
GSWS 315-4 Critical Disability Studies Mondays: 13:30 – 17:20
Coleman Nye
This course will introduce students to key questions and debates in the interdisciplinary field of disability studies. Drawing from a range of texts and media, we will explore the social, political, and representational dimensions of disability. Throughout, we will attend closely to the ways that the category and experience of disability differently intersects with formations of gender, race, sexuality, nationality, and class.
GSWS 318-4 ST: Fat Studies: “Adipossibilities’ of Feminist Fat Studies Wednesdays: 9:30 – 13:20
Rebecca Scott Yoshizawa
As a locus of privilege, discrimination, subjectivity, and sociability, fat reveals intersections of gender, sex, sexuality, race, class, ability, place, and history. This course unpacks fatness, employing feminist and queer theories of embodiment, difference, subjectivity, and social justice. We critically examine valuations of fat, adipose tissue (the anatomical term for fat), and body weight, shape, size, and composition, all of which are heavily circumscribed by science, medicine, society, and culture. We explore weightism, fatphobia, fat acceptance, health at every size, obesity, BMI, media and popular representations, moral panics, dietary guidelines, disorders , and other phenomena of interest to students.
GSWS 319-4 ST: Islamic Feminisms Tuesdays: 8:30 – 12:20
Itrath Syed
The idea of being at once Muslim and feminist continues to be constructed as an ontological impossibility by all sides. The combination of a hegemonic discourse that racializes Muslims as the irredeemable civilizational other, on the one hand, and the dominant patriarchal readings of Islam within Muslim discourses, on the other, threaten to render obsolete the resistant voices of Muslim women. Added to this mix is a western feminist tradition that has often objectified Muslim women as passive, infantilized and in need of being saved. And yet, Muslim women s feminisms and their activism for social change continues to thrive despite this most inhospitable context.
GSWS 405-4 Theoretical Issues in GSWS Thursdays: 8:30 – 12:20
Nadine Boulay
This course engages with feminist theory as a multiple, diverse, and often contradictory body of knowledge, tracing the development of a selection of central and influential intellectual concepts and debates. Students will interrogate the notion of a feminist theoretical canon through reading a diverse array of texts that engage questions of gender, race, class, sexuality, and ability in nuanced and disparate ways.
All GSWS course outlines available at: www.sfu.ca/gsws
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IT’S A NEW TEAM IN THE SENSE THAT WE DON’T HAVE ANY STARTER BACK, IT’S A NEW TEAM IN THE SENSE WE’RE REALLY YOUNG. Bruce Langford, head coach
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The avocado OK, I know you’re probably already disgusted by this suggestion, but hear me out. It’s currently too rainy for anyone to bother having sex in it because they’ll probably catch hypothermia or at least end up bedridden with the flu. Obviously don’t study in it when it’s wet, but on a rare sunny day, it’s semi-decent. There’s a smooth rounded groove for your butt to rest in, and a mirror to occasionally check yourself out in — and you can be sure no one will bother you.
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Your one night stand’s dorm room You met this attractive person in class who’s down for an evening of Netf lix and chill. You go back to their dorm room and have sex so quiet it could end up in the Guinness Book of World Record s. Halfway through the night, you suddenly remember a quiz you have in the morning. To avoid bumping into the strange people who roam the halls at four in the morning, you can just study at this person’s desk. It’s spacious and cozy, and the chances of them waking up is slim.
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Inside the Dollarama at Harbour Centre Usually the little kids and post-secondary leeches avoid the downtown campus. If the unthinkable does happen, though, head downstairs to the mall. Make a beeline for the Dollarama. Don’t even think about studying at the food court unless you have an inexplicable interest for prison, because you will end up killing someone. The Dollarama is pretty quiet so you might actually get some work done. The aisles are spacious enough for sprawling out, annnnnd you can eat knockoff Bounty bars for 82 cents. What could be better?
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In the single-person bathrooms If you can brave the stench in the single-person bathrooms, then it’s the perfect place to study. Lock the door, flush the toilet, and turn on the tap every once in awhile, and you’re set! You can one hundred per cent crank out a paper in there with no one knocking on the door. Just remember, wash your hands thoroughly before you leave. Ain’t nobody wants to be catchin' rare skin diseases.
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