Feminist Studies
FMST 212 Feminist Theory and the Law
Interrogation of the relationship between law and its instantiating gendered categories, supported by feminist, queer, Marxist, critical race, and postcolonial theories. Topics include hypostasization of legal categories, the contest between domestic and international human rights frameworks, overlapping civil and communal codes, cultural explanations in the law, the law as text and archive, testimony and legal subjectivity.
Also offered as
HISC 212
Requirements
Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.