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WOME 3357

Law and Women's Lives

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2024

Topics

  • th: Introduction
  • o Excerpt from Creating a Seat at the Table: Reflections from Women in Law
  • th: Feminist Foundations
  • o “Toward Feminist Jurisprudence,” by Catharine MacKinnon
  • o “The Feminist Frameworks,” edited by Elizabeth Comack
  • rd: Decolonizing Feminist Foundations
  • o “i’m an indigenous feminist — and i’m angry,” by Jessica Yee
  • Chandra Mohanty
  • th: The Persons Case, The Constitution, and The Charter
  • o Look over: The Persons Case, Edwards v . Canada (appeal)
  • Diana Majury
  • th: Indigenous Relations and Law
  • o My Name is Kahentiiosta, by Alanis Obomsawin
  • Recognition and Rights Framework,” by Sherry Pictou
  • st: Reproductive Justice
  • o “The Coercive Sterilization of Aboriginal Women in Canada,” by Karen Stote
  • o Democracy on Trial: The Morgentaler Affair, by Paul Cowan
  • th: 2SLGBTQIA+ and the Law
  • SLGBTQQIA People,” by Alana Robert
  • Karen Pearlston
  • Kimberly Nixon,” by Lori Chambers
  • o Supplementary: Someone Like Me, by Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams
  • th: Sex Work and Labour Equity
  • o Naomi Sayers, “The (Un)Constitutionality of PCEPA”
  • o Buying Sex, by Teresa MacInnes and Kent Nason

Readings

  • o “Toward Feminist Jurisprudence,” by Catharine MacKinnon o “The Feminist Frameworks,” edited by Elizabeth Comack
  • o “i’m an indigenous feminist — and i’m angry,” by Jessica Yee o “Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses,” by Chandra Mohanty
  • o Look over: The Persons Case, Edwards v . Canada (appeal) o “The Charter, Equality Rights, and Women: Equivocation and Celebration,” by Diana Majury
  • o My Name is Kahentiiosta, by Alanis Obomsawin o “Decolonizing Decolonization: An Indigenous Feminist Perspective on the Recognition and Rights Framework,” by Sherry Pictou
  • o “The Coercive Sterilization of Aboriginal Women in Canada,” by Karen Stote o Democracy on Trial: The Morgentaler Affair, by Paul Cowan
  • o “Using the Legal System to Advance Equality for Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA People,” by Alana Robert o “Something More: The State’s Place in the Bedrooms of Lesbian Nation,” by Karen Pearlston o “Unprincipled Exclusions: Transgender Jurisprudence, Feminist Theory and Kimberly Nixon,” by Lori Chambers o Supplementary: Someone Like Me, by Sean Horlor and Steve J. Adams
  • o Naomi Sayers, “The (Un)Constitutionality of PCEPA” o Buying Sex, by Teresa MacInnes and Kent Nason
  • o Conviction by Nance Ackerman, Ariella Pahlke and Teresa MacInnes o “Toward a Feminist Theory of Disability,” by Susan Wendell
  • o “Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes,’” by Rosemary Grey et al. o “Transforming Human Rights from a Feminist Perspective,” by Charlotte Bunch
  • o “The Art of Braiding Indigenous Peoples’ Inherent Human Rights into the Law of Nation States,” by James (Sa’ke’j) Youngblood Henderson o “International Law and International Relations,” by Beth Simmons
  • o There’s Something in the Water, by Elliot Page and Ian Daniel
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