WELCOME
Welcome to the website for the Canadian Women's Studies / l'association canadienne des études sur les femmes! The Association was founded in 1982 as the Canadian-wide, bilingual, professional association of Women's Studies practitioners in Canada. It is composed largely of academic faculty across Canada, in addition to graduate and undergraduate students, community activists, and policy researchers -- but is open to everyone who supports its mission and goals. The CWSA/ACEF is a member association of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences/la fédération canadienne des sciences humaines.
The goals of the CWSA/ACEF are to promote and foster Women's Studies (Gender Studies, etc.) as an academic field and to build a network of Women's Studies practitioners across Canada. The association encourages a wide defintion of Women's Studies as a field of study and aims to aid those teaching and researching in the field in a variety of locations.
The CWSA/ACEF holds an annual conference in conjunction with the CFHSS Congress, in addition to awarding an annual outstanding scholarship prize and both an undergraduate and graduate student essay prize. Additionally, the association organizes the annual national coordinators of Women's Studies one-day meeting, held the day before the annual conference begins. The CWSA/ACEF keeps in regular contact with its Membership via an email list and runs a separate email list for the coordinators of Women's Studies programs and departments across Canada.
The goals of the CWSA/ACEF are to promote and foster Women's Studies (Gender Studies, etc.) as an academic field and to build a network of Women's Studies practitioners across Canada. The association encourages a wide defintion of Women's Studies as a field of study and aims to aid those teaching and researching in the field in a variety of locations.
The CWSA/ACEF holds an annual conference in conjunction with the CFHSS Congress, in addition to awarding an annual outstanding scholarship prize and both an undergraduate and graduate student essay prize. Additionally, the association organizes the annual national coordinators of Women's Studies one-day meeting, held the day before the annual conference begins. The CWSA/ACEF keeps in regular contact with its Membership via an email list and runs a separate email list for the coordinators of Women's Studies programs and departments across Canada.
