SOSC 1350 Lecture 3: Lecture #3 Thinking About Gender and Race- Socio Legal Studies - SOSC1350
23 Oct 2015
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Thinking about gender and race in socio-legal studies. The law in all its majestic impartiality forbids both rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread. One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. [1] feminist approaches to socio-legal studies: anatole france quote vis- -vis the official version of the law neutral and unbiased . Liberal feminism need reform not revolution [likely to reject ovule, and they. The law criminalizes people who are in the society: feminism or why not all feminist approaches are the same, a brief overview of the diversity of feminist approaches: work with the law] Anti-racist feminism how sex and race intersect. Socialist feminism how gender and class intersect. Feminism (problematic views): canadian law and society are sexist. Sexual violence, rape: lower status than men, discriminatory employment practices, very diverse, non-coherent. [2] social construction of gender: traditional feminist understandings of sex vs. gender historically.
