GENDER, LAW, AND IDENTITY (LW3022)

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Will investigate the various ways in which gendered norms of identity are defined, constructed, enforced, managed and even adjudicated through the narratives that inform and produce our social and legal realties. Class readings will include works by Judith Butler, Wendy Brown, Drucilla Cornell, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Nancy Fraser, Michel Foucault, Angela Harris, Nivedita Menon, and Denise da Silva, among others.

Code: 
LW3022
Name: 
GENDER, LAW, AND IDENTITY
Discipline: 
LW (Law)
Type: 
CCI
Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None
Equivalencies: 
GENDER, LAW, AND IDENTITY (GS3022)

Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will be able to apply their knowledge of gender and society to a globally informed understanding and evaluation of the pressures, politics and debates of representations of gender and sexuality, particularly those bearing upon legal rights and social justice.
  2. Students will be able to demonstrate familiarity with the developmental, social, theoretical and historical frameworks that define the academic study of gender and sexuality.
  3. Students will be able to identify, compare, critique and analyze the historical, social and cultural specificity of different conceptions of gender and sexuality.
  4. Students will be able to read and critique literature on sex and gender in the social sciences and the humanities.

Offering(s)

Term Code Name
Fall 2024 LW3022 GENDER, LAW, AND IDENTITY

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