HI397
Canadian Women’s and Gender History
0.5 Credit

Explores the history of Canadian women from the colonial period until the end of the 20th century. It compares women's diverse historic experiences in the workplace, family, community, and nation, and how women's and men's identities and paths were shaped by social constructions of gender, race, and class. The course also considers how historians have developed the field of women's and gender history and how this field has shaped understandings of Canadian history.{C}