PO383
Law, Gender and Sexuality
0.5 Credit
Hours per week:
- Lecture/Discussion: 3
This course explores the connections between legislatures, courts, and society in policing, structuring, liberalizing, or restricting sexual activities, behaviours, and identities. Each week will provide an in-depth case study of a specific example of sexuality, gender, and the law. Topics may include policing and sexuality; sex work; the criminalization of public sex; sexual violence; reproductive justice; artificial reproduction; regulation of "deviant" relationship and family structures; marriage equality; and sex and sexual orientation discrimination.
Additional Course Information
- Prerequisites
- Registration status: Year 3 or 4.
- Exclusions
- PO389b.
- Notes
- This course may be used in partial fulfillment of the Legal Studies Option or Specialization.
