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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • SP.607J (Spring 2004) 
  • Course Title:
  • Gender and the Law in U.S. History 
  • Course Level:
  • Undergraduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • History 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Christopher Capozzola 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 21H.225J / SP.607J / WGS.607J Gender and the Law in U.S. History



    Spring 2004




    Course Highlights


    This course includes an extensive bibliography of readings.


    Course Description


    This subject explores the legal history of the United States as a gendered system. It examines how women have shaped the meanings of American citizenship through pursuit of political rights such as suffrage, jury duty, and military service, how those political struggles have varied for across race, religion, and class, as well as how the legal system has shaped gender relations for both women and men through regulation of such issues as marriage, divorce, work, reproduction, and the family. The course readings will draw from primary and secondary materials in American history, as well as some court cases. However, the focus of the class is on the broader relationship between law and society, and no technical legal knowledge is required or assumed.

    *Some translations represent previous versions of courses.

     

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