History and Women's Studies

Making History and Finding Your Voice

If you love history but can't find the women

or

if you've ever wondered why you know so little about women artists, adventurers, or politicians

then

Windsor's B.A. in History and Women's Studiescould be the program for you!

You learn about women, past and present, famous and not so well known.

Women who changed their world - and changed themselves in the process:

• Women like Nellie McClung who helped Canadian women win the vote.
• Like Mary Two-Axe Early who championed the rights of aboriginal women denied Indian status.
• Like Viola Desmond who waged a one-woman protest against race segregation ten years before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus in Alabama.

You learn about women who have challenged taken-for-granted assumptions that stereotype who women are and what they have the potential to accomplish.

You learn about tea parties, marches, strikes, and the many other ways women have come together to raise their voices and press their points.

History has been a leader in incorporating women into our study of the past. The University of Windsor’s History Department offers a number of courses in women’s and gender history.

Women’s Studies broadens and deepens your historical understanding. Women and gender relations are at the heart of the program. But this is not its boundary. Students examine how race, social class, religion, sexuality, and gender have shaped the lives of women and men in Canada and elsewhere.