AMST2608: Sex and Law in Modern America

2026 unit information

This unit of study explores how the law has shaped concepts of gender and sexuality in the twentieth and twenty-first century United States and, in turn, how women, queer and nonbinary people, and their allies have challenged forms of discrimination embedded in law. From the struggle to protect reproductive rights to prohibitions on interracial marriage and the policing of sexuality and gender identity, sex and the law have always been intertwined in the United States. Topics covered include Second and Third Wave feminisms, the history of eugenic sterilisation, sexual harassment law and #MeToo, and the reproductive rights and LGBTQ rights movements.

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Details

Study level	Undergraduate
Academic unit	United States Studies Centre
Credit points	6

Enrolment rules

Prerequisites: ?	12 credit points at 1000 level in American Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Gender Studies
Corequisites: ?	None
Prohibitions: ?	None
Assumed knowledge: ?	None

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Semester 1 2026	Normal day	Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney	Outline unavailable

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