WOMEN & GENDER STUDIES INSTITUTE

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, CANADA

1999

Management and team. Structure

  • Director
  • Graduate & Undergraduate Administrator
  • Graduate Coordinator
  • Undergraduate Coordinator
  • Administrative Assistant
  • Communications and Outreach Coordinator
  • Business Officer

Objectives

  • To have strength in transnational feminist studies, exploring the stakes of gender and sexuality in sites that range from Canada, Africa, the Caribbean, East Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, Asia Pacific, to the United States.
  • From postcolonial studies to environmental politics to militarism to queer cultures to critical development studies to health activism — their 14 core faculty and over 40 affiliated faculty offer students opportunities to critically explore how gender and sexuality shape interconnected worlds.
  • To research in its rigorous interdisciplinary engagement, the preoccupations that emerge from transnational and postcolonial frames, and its commitment to reimaging and troubling politics.
  • Positioning research in postcolonial, antiracist, queer, and transnational feminisms in the histories and politics of place. Making a work in deep conversation with Caribbean studies, African studies, Canadian studies, Middle Eastern studies, U.S. studies, South Asian studies, and East Asian studies.

Research and results

Projects publications:

  • Mary Nyquist, Re-membering Milton. Essays on the Texts and Traditions, Methuen Paperbacks, 1988.
  • M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Mohanty, (Eds.), Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures, Routledge, 1996.
  • Alissa Trotz and Linda Peake, Gender, Ethnicity and Place. Women and Identities in Guayana, Routledge, 1999.
  • Shahrzad Mojab, Himani Bannerji, and Judith Whitehead (Eds.), Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism: A Decade Later, University of Toronto Press, 2001.
  • M. Jacqui Alexander, Lisa Albrecht and Sharon Day (Eds.), Sing!, Whisper!, Shout!, Pray! Feminist Visions for a just world, Edgework Books, 2003.
  • Kay Armatage, The Girl from God’s Country.  Nell Shipman and the Silent Cinema, University of Toronto Press, 2003.
  • Michelle Murphy, Gregg Mitman, and Chris Sellers (Eds.), Landscapes of Exposure: Knowledge and Illness in Modern Environments, Osiris 19, University of Chicago Press, 2004.
  • Kerry Rittich and Joanne Conaghan (Eds.), Labour Law, Work, and Family. Critical and Comparative Perspectives, Oxford University Press, 2005.
  • Jacqui Alexander, Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred, Duke University Press, 2006.
  • Michelle Murphy, Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers, Duke University Press, 2006.
  • Bonnie McElhinny (Ed.), Words, Worlds, and Material Girls. Language, Gender, Globalization, Mouton de Gruyter, 2008.
  • Shahrzad Mojab (Ed.), Women, War, Violence and Learning, Routledge, 2010.
  • Bonnie McElhinny, Filipinos in Canada: Disturbing Invisibility, University of Toronto Press, 2012.
  • Michelle Murphy, Seizing the Means of Reproduction: Entanglements of Feminism, Health, and Technoscience, Duke University Press, 2012.
  • Dina Georgis, The Better Story. Queer affects from the Middle East, SUNY Press, 2013.
  • Mary Nyquist, Arbitrary Rule. Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death, University of Chicago Press, 2013.
  • Victoria Tahmasebi-Birgani, Emmanuel Levinas and The Politics, University of Toronto Press, 2014.
  • Trimble, Undead Ends. Stories of Apocalypse, Rutgers University, 2019.
  • Arif Bulkan and D. Alissa Trotz (Eds.), Unmasking the State: Politics, Society and Economy in Guyana 1992–2015, Ian Randle Publishers, 2019.
  • Alissa Trotz (Ed.), The Point is to Change the World. Selected Writings of Andaiye, Pluto Books, 2020.

Ongoing projects

[No information about ongoing projects]

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