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JurisTalk – “What if the state no longer sexed us?: The political implications of abandoning a regime of assigned sex/gender status”
Friday, September 6, 2019 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
- In-person event
- 3400, Canal Building, Carleton University
- 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
Speaker:
Dr. Davina Cooper
Research Professor, King’s College, London, UK
This paper critically explores the value, challenges, risks and potential of abandoning legal gender status.
It emerges at the mid-point of a three year UK Research Council funded project, entitled “The Future of Legal Gender”
(see: “The Future of Legal Gender”)
Paper presentation, followed by responses from:
Ann Cvetkovich, Director, Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies
Stacy Douglas, Law & Legal Studies
Lara Karaian, Criminology & Criminal Justice
