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 focuses on the main legal issues taken on in the debate in women's studies, and in particular on bioethics.

Specific lessons will be devoted to these focus: Women and Law between New Feminism and Post-structuralism, Reproductive Rights and Feminist Bioethics, Care and Vulnerability in Feminist Theory (students can choose to attend lessons in English; dates and classrooms will be updated, 2 hours per lesson).

The Seminar “Ethics and politics in gender studies”  is an essential section of the Course. The class will meet at the Ex Convento S. Cristina, Piazzetta Morandi 2, Monday and Tuesday, from 17 to 19 pm. Classes will start on 16 October 2017 and will end on 5 December 2017 (see the  seminar webpage).

Readings/Bibliography

Students can choose one or more of the 3 lessons and write a paper on the chosen topic. For each topic the following readings are required:


1. Women and law between New Feminisms and Post-structuralism

R. Braidotti, C. Colebrook, P. Hanafin, Deleuze and Law: Forensic Futures, Palagrave Macmillan, New York, 2009.


2. Reproductive rights and Feminist Bioethics

 
P. Hanafin, Conceiving Life: Reproductive Politics and Law in Contemporary Italy, Ashgate, London, 2007.

J.J.Thomson, A Defense of Abortion, in "Philosophy and Public Affairs",1971,1(1), p. 53.


3. Care and vulnerability in Feminist Theory

C. Mackenzie, W. Rogers, S. Dodds, Vulnerability: New Essays in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2014.

Teaching methods

This is a first-semester course, consisting in a series of lectures delivered in class.

Please check the website www.giuri.unibo.it for the room and the weekly schedule of the lectures.

Assessment methods

The final exam will be oral or written on one of the course topic and is aimed at evaluating the extent to which the student has achieved the learning objectives relative to feminist theory of law and the bioethical debate.

Erasmus students have to prepare the same program, however, they can take the exam, written or oral, in English.

Teaching tools

All information about the course, as well as any notices, will be published online at http://campus.unibo.it or at the webpage https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/carla.faralli

 

Office hours

See the website of Carla Faralli