WS 322

Gender, Law and Resistance in Historical Perspective

Units: 1.5, Hours: 3-0

Focusing mainly on North America, examines the historical relationship between women and the changing regulatory practices of the state and the criminal justice system. Places special emphasis on exploring how these regulatory practices and women's resistances to them were shaped by gender, class, race, ethnicity and sexuality.

Prerequisites: Second-year standing or permission of the department.

Undergraduate course in Women's Studies offered by the Department of Women's Studies in the Faculty of Humanities.