This course is about rethinking the part law plays in maintaining a gendered society. We will read case excerpts, examine constitutional provisions and laws and consider readings that offer different perspectives on this and related questions such as reproductive rights, the right to equal employment, and domestic violence.
Team taught by UT Law Professor Zipporah Wiseman and CWGS Director Dr. Susan Sage Heinzelman.
An expert in commercial law, Professor Wiseman also teaches and writes on issues in feminist legal theory. She is co-author of Commercial Law: Cases and Materials (Little, Brown, 2nd ed., 1982), co-editor of Representing Women: Law, Literature and Feminism (Duke, 1994), and author of several articles, including "The Limits of Vision: Karl Llewellyn and the Merchant Rules" (Harvard Law Review, 1987).
Dr. Susan Heinzelman is an Associate Professor in the English Department and Director of the Center for Women's & Gender Studies. She has published extensively on law and literature and gender, most recently with Stanford University Press: Riding the Black Ram: Law, Literature, and Gender (2010).
This class is cross-listed with WGS 393. WGS is the home department.