Instructor

Jill Sherrill Smith
js26@queensu.ca

Message from the Instructor

Welcome to Gender Studies!  I became active in the Canadian women’s movement during the late 1960s in Montreal, Quebec.  In those days, I did not know I was becoming a “feminist.” In fact, I didn’t know what a “feminist” was.  I suppose, if I really visualized the word “feminist” at all, I thought of angry women who didn’t like men.  It is, and was not, a very appealing vision.  Still, I went ahead and started my journey in the women’s movement.  My life, and the lives of many others – men and women, has been positively transformed because of encounters with feminist thought, the women’s movement and women’s studies. I hope you will change as a result of your study of gender issues.  I know many students’ lives have been transformed because of their connection with the emancipatory study of gender and power relations.  Warm wishes for a brilliant learning journey.

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