Timeline Category: Gender

  • Women’s Studies Program established

    Paving the way to York’s leadership in critical women’s, gender, and sexuality scholarship. Though Women’s Studies courses had been offered at York since 1972, Women’s Studies was formalized as a program in 1983. The graduate program, the first Women’s Studies program in Canada, was established in 1992. The School of Women’s Studies was officially founded…

  • Centre for Feminist Research founded

    From the CFR website: Established in 1991, the Centre for Feminist Research has been inspired by the feminist movement, which led to the creation of the establishment of feminist scholarship around the world; and the gay and lesbian rights movement, which led to the development of queer studies scholarship; and the anti-racist feminist movement, which…