WGST 208 Women, Gender, and Law

This course engages learners with historical and contemporary topics about how Canadian laws govern and interact with gender and sexuality. Starting from the position that law is one of the key contexts for individual, social, and structural negotiations of gender, gender identities, sexualities, and womanhood, we consider how law both produces and regulates experiences, rights, personhood, and gendered selves. Using critical, feminist, intersectional, anticolonial, and socio-legal frameworks, we examine criminalized gender identities and gendered practices.