Unit name | Sex, Gender and Law |
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Unit code | LAWD30110 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
Unit director | Professor. Bibbings |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | University of Bristol Law School |
Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit will consider the following: feminist and masculinities theories as well as theories of sexuality as they relate to law. Other topics vary from year to year but can, for example, include: female suffrage campaigns; regulating the body; family law; reproduction; human rights; pornography; employment; legal reasoning; male violence).
By the end of this unit a successful student will be able to:
This unit is also intended to improve benchmark skills, specifically research skills.
10 lectures and 10 two-hour seminars.
Formative: 2000 word essay (mandatory)
Summative: 2 x 2,000 word essays - 50% each
The essay questions are designed to assess both whether students are able to understand and apply the ideas about sex and gender etc across the breadth of the syllabus, and whether they were able to think critically about sex, gender and law. The assessments will assess all of the intended learning outcomes for this unit.
Helena Kennedy, Eve was Framed (Vintage: London, 2005); Carol Smart Feminism and the Power of Law (London: Routledge, 1989); Rosemary Hunter, Claire McGlynn, Erika. Rackley (eds) Feminist Judgements: From Theory to Practice (Hart: London, 2010); Joanne Conaghan Gender and Law (Oxford: OUP, 2013); Lois Bibbings Binding Men: Stories About Violence and Law in Late Victorian England (London: Routledge, 2014); Joanne Conaghan and Yvette Russell (2014) ‘Rape myths, law, and feminist research: "myths about myths"?’ Feminist Legal Studies 22(1), 25-48.