WOMS201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, 1860 Mount Lebanon Civil War, Seneca Falls Convention

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WOMS201
• Professor: Turkel Kathleen

Document Summary

Lecture 2: court cases, muller vs oregon (1908, goesaert vs cleary (1948, hoint vs florida (1961, reed vs reed (1971, start of stricter court scrutiny of sex cases. Not as strict as those use for race: frontiero vs richardson (1973, craig vs boren (1976) There is nothing that says women can"t be drafted with or without. Never ratified: male over female, white over color, hetero over homo sexual, common rankings, 5 faces of oppression, systems of inequality and privilege. Lecture 3: privilege & institutions: basic points of privilege. Institutions: institutions: social organizations that involve established patterns of behavior, organized around particular purposes, function through social norms and cultural expectations. Power of religion and religious institutions reflected in law and policy. Tax policy, marriage laws: prop up power and influence of institutions. Way it is constructed within law and policy. Laws that say who can marry and who can"t: the family, government and criminal justice system.