46 Feminist and Gender Studies
Feminist and Gender Studies (FEM)
eGirls, eCitizens∗ 
Edited by Jane Bailey and Valerie Steeves (University of Ottawa)
2015
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
eGirls, eCitizens is a landmark work that explores the many forces that shape girls’ and young women’s experiences of privacy, identity, and equality in our digitally networked society. Drawing on the multi-disciplinary expertise of a remarkable team of leading Canadian and international scholars, as well as Canada’s foremost digital literacy organization, MediaSmarts, this collection presents the complex realities of digitized communications for girls and young women as revealed through the findings of The eGirls Project (www.egirlsproject.ca) and other important research initiatives. Aimed at moving dialogues on scholarship and policy around girls and technology away from established binaries of good vs bad, or risk vs opportunity, these seminal contributions explore the interplay of factors that shape online environments characterized by a gendered gaze and too often punctuated by sexualized violence. Perhaps most importantly, this collection offers first-hand perspectives collected from girls and young women themselves, providing a unique window on what it is to be a girl in today’s digitized society. (Description from UO Press)
Format: PDF
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FEM 2110 Sexuality, Gender and Popular Culture
Gendered Lives: Global Issues∗
Nadine T. Fernandez (SUNY Empire State College) and Katie Nelson (Inver Hills Community College)
2021
Licence: CC BY 4.0
A gender studies textbook that takes an anthropological approach. Gendered Lives takes a regional approach to examine gender issues from an anthropological perspective with a focus on globalization and intersectionality. Chapters present contributors’ ethnographic research, contextualizing their findings within four geographic regions: Latin America, the Caribbean, South Asia, and the Global North. Each regional section begins with an overview of the broader historical, social, and gendered contexts, which situate the regions within larger global linkages. These introductions also feature short project/people profiles that highlight the work of community leaders or non-governmental organizations active in gender-related issues. Each research-based chapter begins with a chapter overview and learning objectives and closes with discussion questions and resources for further exploration. This modular, regional approach allows instructors to select the regions and cases they want to use in their courses. While they can be used separately, the chapters are connected through the book’s central themes of globalization and intersectionality.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF
Reviews: Open Textbook Library
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FEM 2109 Gender and Globalization in a Transnational World
Gender in Canada: A Companion Workbook
Edited by Rebecca Yoshizawa (Kwantlen Polytechnic University)
2023
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This workbook is designed for first or second-year sociology of gender or gender studies courses, focusing on the Canadian context. It is divided into five topics – Theory and Concepts, Institutions, Work, Family and Intimate Relationships, and Bodies and Health. This workbook does not replace a textbook, instructor teachings through lectures, class discussion, class assignments, or other standard undergraduate course materials. Instead, this is an activity book: a course companion, working alongside and with those course materials.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook and PDF
Includes: activities, glossary
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FEM 1100 Women, Gender, Feminism: An Introduction
Global Femicide: Indigenous Women and Girls Torn from Our Midst∗
Edited by Brenda Anderson, Carrie Bourassa, Shauneen Pete, Wendee Kubik, and Mary Rucklos-Hampton (University of Regina)
2021
Licence: CC BY-NC 4.0
Laying our Canadian stories alongside the global phenomenon of femicide in other colonized countries such as Mexico and Guatemala, this book underscores the common, interlocking effects of racism and sexism on Indigenous women. Family members, scholars and researchers, artists, activists and policy-makers provide their decade-long perspectives, providing testimony and evidence that sexualized and racialized violence is not only a product of historic colonization but continues to manifest in entrenched systems of colonization and global femicide. The analysis and the heart of all the authors is generously shared, exemplifying what resistance looks like.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, and PDF
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FEM 3108 Indigenous Feminisms
Global Women’s Issues: Women in the World Today (Extended Version)∗
Bureau of International Information Programs, United States Department of State, with additions by Janni Aragon and Mariel Miller (University of Victoria)
2019
Licence: CC0 public domain
This global politics text has been positively reviewed and has been successfully adopted by other faculty. It covers concepts in women’s political issues, from women and education to the rights of children. We cannot solve global challenges unless women participate fully in efforts to find solutions. Female participation in the private sector is a crucial economic driver for societies worldwide. Economic security benefits every facet of a woman’s life, with positive effects on the health, education, and vitality of families. Learn about women who are changing their societies for the better.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, MOBI, and more.
Includes: Keywords, multiple-choice questions, discussion questions, essay questions, summaries, and a list of additional resources
Reviews: Open Textbook Library – BCcampus
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FEM 1100 Women, Gender, Feminism: An Introduction
Introduction to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies∗
Miliann Kang, Donovan Lessard, Laura Heston, and Sonny Nordmarken (University of Massachusetts)
2017
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This textbook introduces key feminist concepts and analytical frameworks used in the interdisciplinary Women, Gender, Sexualities field. It unpacks the social construction of knowledge and categories of difference, processes, and structures of power and inequality, with a focus on gendered labor in the global economy, and the historical development of feminist social movements. The book emphasizes feminist sociological approaches to analyzing structures of power, drawing heavily from empirical feminist research.
Formats: Pressbooks webbook, EPUB, PDF, and more
Includes: Videos
Reviews: Open Textbook Library – BCcampus
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FEM 1100 Women, Gender, Feminism: An Introduction
Introduction to Queer Studies 101
Jimena Alvarado Chavarría (Everyday Social Justice and Portland Community College)
Licence: CC BY-NC 3.0 US
This course is an introduction to queer studies, with a focus on intersectionality and social justice. I’m starting from a beginner perspective assuming that folks are coming into these ideas for the first time. The course begins with some of the typical patterns that people experience when they’re confronting their privilege for the first time, including resistance, fragility, guilt and shame. I encourage folks to always stay focused on their privileged identities, whichever those are. Since it’s an introductory course, there’s a lot of interesting ideas, but we don’t delve deep into any of them. We explore the roots of hatred and the gender binary, and the roles science and religion have played in creating and maintaining queerphobia. We explore identities that are related to sexual orientation like Asexuality, Bisexuality, Lesbians and Gay men; as well as those related to gender identity and sex, such as Intersex, Non-binary and Trans folks. We explore some of the similar patterns that different identities face, like issues around visibility, disclosure, and familial relationships. We explore some of the social patterns and expectations around sexual and romantic relationships, and spend some time on sexual decision making and communication. The course uses a flipped-classroom methodology that centers student conversations during class time.
Formats: Online, PDF and Word
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FEM 1100 Women, Gender, Feminism: An Introduction [as supplementary resource]
Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies 101
Jimena Alvarado Chavarría (Everyday Social Justice and Portland Community College)
Licence: CC BY-NC 3.0 US
This course is an introduction to intersectionality and social justice. I’m starting from a beginner perspective assuming that folks are coming into these ideas for the first time. The course begins with some of the typical patterns that people experience when they’re confronting their privilege for the first time, including resistance, fragility, guilt and shame. I encourage folks to always stay focused on their privileged identities, whichever those are. Since it’s an introductory course, there’s a lot of interesting ideas, but we don’t delve deep into any of them. We explore some of the similar patterns that different oppressions face, like victim-blaming, competition, internalization, issues around visibility, disclosure, inheritability and familial relationships. We analyze economic systems around work and employment and question the structures and systems that shape our lives. I encourage students to develop their humility, ally and activism skills. We wrap up with hope for how to reimagine a better society. The course uses a flipped-classroom methodology that centers student conversations during class time.
Formats: Online, PDF and Word
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FEM 1100 Women, Gender, Feminism: An Introduction [as supplementary resource]
LGBTQ+ Studies: An Open Textbook∗
Edited by Deborah Amory (SUNY Empire State College) and Sean G. Massey (Binghampton University)
2020
Licence: CC BY 4.0
This textbook is designed to provide an introduction to and an overview of LGBTQ+ Studies for the introductory level college student and the curious public. It offers accessible, academically sound information on a wide range of topics, from LGBTQ+ history, LGBTQ+ relationship, families, parenting, and health, to LGBTQ+ culture. It employs an intersectional analysis, highlighting the ways in which sexuality and gender are simultaneously experienced and constructed through other structures of inequality and privilege, such as race and class. This intersectional analysis is grounded in social theory and the social sciences. It also seeks to highlight a more global perspective on LGBTQ+ issues, from the ancient world as well more contemporary ones. Finally, it aims to support multiple learning styles by integrating visual elements and multimedia resources.
Format: Online
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FEM 3107 Queer Theories
