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Law 693: Feminist Legal Studies Workshop II (Winter 2016)

Course Description

The Feminist Legal Studies Workshop is designed to enable students to work closely with faculty in analyzing and discussing with leading feminist theorists and scholars visiting Queen's Faculty the topics of the speakers' papers.

Course Details

• The Feminist Legal Studies Workshop course is offered for one course credit per term.
• In the fall term of 2015, it is designated as Law 692; in the winter term of 2016, it is designated as Law 693.
• Students may enroll for one credit in the fall term, or for one credit in the winter term, or for a total of two credits in both terms combined.
• This course can also be combined with an ISP for students who may wish to carry out in-depth independent supervised work in relation to one or more of the areas discussed in this workshop.

Scheduling Details

• The workshop speakers will typically be scheduled for the regular visitor slots on Mondays and Fridays, which run from 1 to 2:30 pm.
• One or two additional meetings per term will be scheduled around everyone's class and other commitments.

Evaluation of Student Participation

• Students will attend all the speakers' events (4/term or all 7-8).
• Students will prepare advance reading for the first session of each term and two advance questions for the rest of the speakers in that term.
• Students will prepare 1-2 pages of briefing notes after each session (60% of course credit).
• Students will participate in the discussion at the speakers' visit (10% of course credit).
• Students will prepare a short term paper of approximately 10-15 pages on a topic that relates to any one of the speakers' events (30% of course credit).
• The course will be taught by Profs. Amani and Lahey.

Winter Term Speakers (Winter 2016)

• Monday, January 18, 2016, 1pm-2:30pm, Macdonald Hall Room 202: Kuukuwa Andam, Lawyer, Ghana, and PhD student, Faculty of Law, Queen's University
  • Topic: "A Flower without a Fence": Female Sexual Minority Rights in Ghana
  • Abstract and Bio available
  • Background Reading:
    • Serena Owusua Dankwa, '"It's a Silent Trade": Female Same-Sex Intimacies in Post-Colonial Ghana', September, 2009
    • Kehinde Okanlawon, Akudo Oguaghamba, Caroline Kouassiaman and Mariam Armisen, 'Struggling Alone: The Lived Realities of Women who have sex with Women in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Nigeria', April 2012
    • Kuukuwa Andam, Asylum Application, Re A (Ghana), Mar. 7, 2014
    • Gay Star News, 'Gay man brutally beaten by mob in Ghana,' Feb. 11, 2015
• Friday, February 5, 2016, 1pm-2:30pm, Macdonald Hall Room 202: Dr. Jane Bailey, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law
  • Topic: A perfect storm: How the online environment, social norms and law shape girls' lives
  • Abstract and Bio available
  • Background Reading: Bailey, J. "A Perfect Storm: How the Online Environment, Social Norms and Law Constrain Girls' Online Lives", eGirls, eCitizens, Jane Bailey and Valerie Steeves, eds. (Ottawa: uOttawa Press, 2015).
• February 26/27, 2016 - Feminist Legal Studies Queen's Conference: Gender, Wellbeing and the Politics of Imagination: Law, Culture, Compassion
  • Friday, February 26, 2016, 1:30pm-3:30pm, Dupuis Auditorium, Dupuis Hall, 19 Division St.
  • Keynote Address: Dr. Norah McKendrick, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University
  • Topic: The Body Toxic: Gender and the Politics of Environmental Health
  • Abstract, Bio, and Background Reading available
  • Background Reading:
    • Cranor, Carl F. "Do You Want to Bet Your Children's Health on Post-Market Harm Principles? An Argument for a Trespass or Permission Model for Regulating Toxicants"
    • MacKendrick, Norah "More Work for Mother: Chemical Body Burdens as a Maternal Responsibility"
    • Scott, Dayna Nadine "'Gender-benders': Sex and Law in the Constitution of Polluted Bodies"