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Are women, ontologically speaking, human in the eyes of the law and legal institutions? Feminist legal theorists posit that masculinist legal systems, institutions, and norms reproduce unequal power structures and thus entrench and reify social, political, and material asymmetries and inequalities, that render women, as legal subjects ontologically unequal. Furthermore, that the masculinist bias of law and legal institutions in relation to gendered realities has enabled historic and systemic oppression, domination, and exclusion of women from political and legal institutions. Feminist legal theory has provided generative critiques and interventions within political and legal philosophy that are the foundation for many political and legal developments and movements for social justice today. Therefore, this course will provide a broad, yet practically situated, historical overview and introduction to feminist legal theory ranging from liberal, socialist, radical, Marxist, relational, queer, and to postcolonial schools of thought, thereby demonstrating methods of feminist analysis such as consciousness-raising and intersectional analysis, and briefly touching upon contemporary topics in legal philosophy such as: human rights, sexual harassment, consent, equal pay, and reproductive rights. |