Feminist Studies

FMST 112 Women and the Law

Interdisciplinary approach to study of law in its relation to category women and production of gender. Considers various materials including critical race theory, domestic case law and international instruments, representations of law, and writings by and on behalf of women living under different forms of legal control. Examines how law structures rights, offers protections, produces hierarchies, and sexualizes power relations in both public and intimate life.

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to feminist studies, politics, legal studies, and Latin American and Latino studies/politics combined majors during first and second pass enrollment.

Credits

5

Quarter offered

Spring

Instructor

Gina Dent

Also offered as

POLI 112

Requirements

Enrollment is restricted to politics, feminist studies, legal studies, and Latin American and Latino studies/politics combined majors during first and second pass enrollment.