Prerequisite: none
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Credits
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Offered
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Through a comparative lens using the United States experience as a reference point, this course will explore specific legal issues of concern to women worldwide and the concomitant social and cultural factors that affect policy making. It will also address gender-related human rights issues and the role of international law. Topics will include: (1) marriage and family law, traditions, and rituals; (2) work and education; (3) health care and reproduction; (4) war and peace; (5) violence against women, including sexual harassment, prostitution, pornography, rape, and intimate partner abuse.
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3
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Irregularly |
