LAW 822SEM - Gender, Sexuality, & Law

Focusing on the contemporary United States, this seminar studies the legal regulation of gender and sexuality. It covers a broad range of topics: the decline and resilience of marriage as a privileged site of sex, childbearing, and parenthood; feminist law reforms relating to sexual violence and harassment; legal and political conflicts over sex work and pornography; sexuality’s prominent place in debates about the relationship between law and morality; clashes between religious exercise and sexual/reproductive liberty; the legality of discrimination based on sex, gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation, and those categories intersections with race and class.

Credits: 3