26026 - Women And Law

Learning outcomes

Students will explore legal feminism and learn to engage critically with a range of ideas in a gender-sensitive way, tackling topics like law as a tool for freedom, gendered law, discrimination, and human rights.

Course contents

The course offers an interdisciplinary, intellectually and politically a collegiate space, based on critical theories of law and gender, with a particular focus on both historical and contemporary legal and bioethical issues that involve gender, sexual, racial, class, post-colonial and environmental justice.

The first three lessons will be:

• 26 settembre 2023. The gender perspective between law and bioethics, Prof.ssa Carla Faralli.

• 27 settembre 2023. Transnational Perspectives on Gender-based violence, Dott.ssa Ludovica Bargellini.

• 3 ottobre 2023
  -The Abortion Question in Feminism/Transfeminism, Dott.ssa Tamara Roma
  
  -Ethical and Legal Issues of Reproductive Technologies: the case of Surrogacy, Dott.ssa Emma Capulli.

The Seminar “Ethics and politics in gender studies” is an essential section of the Course. Update info will be published on its webpage by the end of September.

Classes are based in the Department of Arts-DAR, at the ex-Convent of St. Christine, Piazzetta Giorgio Morandi 2.

Readings/Bibliography

Students can choose one or more of the 3 topics with the relative references:

1.Nuove maternità. Riflessioni bioetiche al femminile di C. Faralli, C. Cortesi , Diabasis, 2005.

2. Questioni di fine vita. Riflessioni bioetiche al femminile a cura di C. Faralli , S. Zullo, Bononia University Press, 2008.

3. DONNE, AMBIENTE E ANIMALI NON-UMANI
Riflessioni bioetiche al femminile , A cura di Carla Faralli, Matteo Andreozzi e Adele Tiengo, LED edizioni, 2014.

 

 

Teaching methods

This is a first-semester course, consisting in a series of lectures delivered in class. More info will be published at the beginning of September.

Assessment methods

The final exam is meant to test not only the students' knowledge of the main developments of the contemporary debate, but also their understanding of the complex issues discussed during the course. Final Grading Scale:

– The student’s grasp of the ground covered in class is limited to only a narrow range of issues, with an analytic ability that only comes out with the instructor’s help, even if the language used is on the whole correct. → 18–19

– The student can discuss a broader range of issues, but with a limited capacity for critical analysis, even if the language is correct. → 20–24

– The student can discuss a broad range of issues, demonstrating an independent capacity for critical analysis and a command of the terminology. → 25–29

– The student demonstrates a facility for discussion essentially across the entire spectrum of issues, with an ability to engage in independent critical analysis and make connections between arguments, coupled with a full command of the terminology and a capacity for argument formation and self-reflection. → 30–30 cum laude.

The exam may be conducted orally from a choice of one of the indicated texts or in the written form through the writing of a paper (min.10 pages) on the topics covered during the course and the seminar.

Teaching tools

All information about the course, as well as any notices, will be published online at https://virtuale.unibo.it/ or at the webpage https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/carla.faralli and at the tutor's webpage https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/tamara.roma2

 

Office hours

See the website of Carla Faralli