This course explores issues relating to the historical and contemporary experiences of Indigenous women in northern North America. It examines themes including Indigenous understandings of gender and kinship; the history of settler colonial policy and the regulation of Indigenous women; the law and criminalization; labour and informal economies; politics and activism; and motherhood and child welfare. This course also considers Indigenous feminist analyses and its relationship to understanding Indigenous women’s issues. Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hoursPrerequisite(s): INDG 230.3 and 9 credit units INDG courses at the 300 level; or permission of the instructor. Note: Students with credit for INDG 498 Indigenous Women Feminism Politics and Resistance may not take this course for credit.
This course explores issues relating to the historical and contemporary experiences of Indigenous women in northern North America. It examines themes including Indigenous understandings of gender and kinship; the history of settler colonial policy and the regulation of Indigenous women; the law and criminalization; labour and informal economies; politics and activism; and motherhood and child welfare. This course also considers Indigenous feminist analyses and its relationship to understanding Indigenous women’s issues. Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hoursPrerequisite(s): INDG 230.3 and 9 credit units INDG courses at the 300 level; or permission of the instructor. Note: Students with credit for INDG 498 Indigenous Women Feminism Politics and Resistance may not take this course for credit.
