GENDER, LAW, AND IDENTITY in Spring 2026 (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.

Course Master: 
GENDER, LAW, AND IDENTITY (LW3022)
Term: 
Spring 2026
Discipline: 
LW (Law)
Credits: 
4 credits
Type: 
CCI
Level: 
Undergraduate
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Cross Listed: 
GENDER, LAW, AND IDENTITY in Spring 2026 (GS3022)
Exam Date: 
Tuesday, May 5, 2026 - 12:30
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None

Professor(s)

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.

Syllabus

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Schedule

Start Date: 
Monday, January 12, 2026
End Date: 
Monday, May 11, 2026
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
12:10
13:30
SD-4
Friday
12:10
13:30
SD-4