School of Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies Archives

School of Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies professor and her daughter collaborate on new book about women’s roles

Posted on 29 May 2025

Andrea O’Reilly, professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies, along with her daughter Casey O’Reilly-Conlin, who holds a master’s degree from York University’s Faculty of Environmental & Urban Change, have collaborated on a new book published by Demeter Press. Gone Feral: Unruly Women and the Undoing of Normative Femininity, features 16 international contributions from […]

Want to Learn How to do Research Rather than Just Reading About It?

Posted on 2 May 2025

Photo: Professor Crosby conducting fieldwork (© Remembering and Memorializing Violence: Transnational Feminist Dialogues) Enroll in GWST 4555 Feminist Methodologies, taught by Professor Alison Crosby, Wednesdays, 11:30-2:30 p.m. In this course you will: Design your own research project. Learn how to conduct interviews, engage in ethnographic observation, and use creative methods such as PhotoVoice, image theatre, […]

School of Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies professor cowrites article about Islamophobic attacks in Canada

Posted on 3 April 2025

Assistant professor Nadia Hasan from the School of Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies has cowritten an article for The Conversation about a recent attack on a Muslim woman in Ajax, Ontario. The article looks at the ways in which Muslim women’s bodies have become politicized by white supremacy and other racist ideologies in Canada. Attacks […]

85-year-old LA&PS graduate took advantage of the Bridging Program for Women to achieve her goals

Posted on 5 November 2024

Hortense Valerie Anglin graduated from York University this fall at the age of 85. She made the decision to follow her interest in higher education and complete her degree in Religious Studies (Department of Humanities) after her husband passed away. Her completion of the program was made possible through LA&PS’s Bridging Program for Women. […]

Professor Bianca Beauchemin explores the diasporic and queered possibilities of Romaine la Prophètesse

Posted on 9 July 2024

Volume 57 Issue 3 of the "Journal of Canadian Studies" features an article from Professor Professor Beauchemin. Opaque Aesthetics of Freedom: Romaine la Prophètesse, the Haitian Revolution, and Black Diasporic Possibilities explores the diasporic and queered possibilities of the Haitian Revolution with a focus on the revolutionary figure Romaine la Prophètesse. The article uncovers the […]

Professor Andrea O'Reilly publishes a collection of writing exploring the meaning and nature of motherhood

Posted on 2 May 2024

Professor Andrea O’Reilly, renowned for establishing the academic discipline of Motherhood Studies, released her newest book entitled, In (M)other Words: Writing on Mothering and Motherhood 2009-2024. With this collection of work, O’Reilly expands the conversation about the meaning and nature of motherhood which was initiated by Adrienne Rich in her book, Of Woman Born close […]

Ways of Witnessing Black Motherhood featuring Dr. Jan-Therese Mendes

Posted on 23 March 2022

In the winter months bracketing 2019 two Black mothers were the objects of short-lived media frenzies in the Northern welfare states of Sweden and Norway. One woman, heavily pregnant, is arrested by a brutally apprehending authority that nearly terminates the fetus; while the other has allegedly chosen to end her life and that of her […]

GSWS 2022 Annual Lecture

Posted on 28 February 2022

Ways of Witnessing Black Motherhood: Spectacles of Suffering, Mortal Rebellions, and the Tyranny of Love with Jan-Therese Mendes, PhD Please join us for the 2022 Annual Lecture, School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies featuring Dr. Jan-Therese Mendes. Date: Friday, March 11, 2022 Time: 11:30 am – 1:30 pm (EST) Dr. Mendes holds a PhD in […]

Sexuality Studies Spotlight

Posted on 14 February 2022

Sexuality Studies Spotlight is a podcast that highlights what you can do with your sexuality studies degree. Produced in collaboration with the York University Sexuality Studies Program, episodes feature interviews between undergraduate students and activists, scholars, and professionals who demonstrate how you can apply a critical sexualities lens to just about anything. The trailer is […]

Visiting Scholar in Sexuality Studies Talk: "Beyond the Paradox of Rights

Posted on 31 January 2022

Notes on 'Khwajasara Becoming' in Pakistan" with Dr. Salman Hussain Date: February 17, 2022Time: 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm (EST) Dr. Salman Hussain is the 2021-2022 Visiting Scholar in Sexuality Studies and a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at York University. Dr. Hussain is a Cultural Anthropologist with research interests in […]