Gender, Law and the State: Current Legal Issues (LAWS0231)

Feminist legal theory offers a challenge to conventional ways of understanding the form, meaning and function of law and it offers a critique of foundational assumptions about law. This module first will examine feminist legal theory both in conceptual analysis and in practical argument. We will look, for example, at law’s theoretical underpinnings and its assumptions about the nature of the state and the individual.

Gender, Law and the State: Current Legal Issues (LAWS0055)

Feminist legal theory offers a challenge to conventional ways of understanding the form, meaning and function of law and it offers a critique of foundational assumptions about law. This module first will examine feminist legal theory both in conceptual analysis and in practical argument. We will look, for example, at law’s theoretical underpinnings and its assumptions about the nature of the state and the individual.

 

The module’s central themes are national identity and nation-building in Italy between Unification and the First World War. The first seminars are taken...

Nation, Culture and Society in Italy, 1860-1914. (ITAL0022)

The module’s central themes are national identity and nation-building in Italy between Unification and the First World War. The first seminars are taken up by a theoretical and historical discussion of nations and nationalism, and by preparatory study of the state of Italian society in 1860. The main body of the module comprises topics that may include the following: education and children’s literature; crime and criminal anthropology; political culture; feminism; opera; patriotic monuments; Italian cuisine; Futurism; the South; the Giolittian state. A representative work is studied for each topic, along with a wide range of historical and theoretical material. Students are therefore expected to know the set works in detail, to engage with new theoretical concepts, and to develop a good understanding of the central questions related to the issue of national identity in Liberal Italy. 