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Women's Legal Strategies in Canada

Author : Radha Jhappan
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802076670
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Women's Legal Strategies in Canada written by Radha Jhappan and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have Canadian women gained from their pursuit of legal remedies to social, political, economic, and cultural inequalities? Is law a fruitful avenue for such struggles? Using liberal feminist, postmodern, critical, race, and queer theory, these essays confront the anti-rights critiques of the legal Left regarding the use of law in general and the Charter in particular. Several chapters explicitly examine the strategic limits and possibilities of the substantive equality rights approaches pursued by LEAF (The Women's Legal Education and Action Fund). Others focus on legal strategies mobilized in discreet areas of law and public policy by foreign domestic workers and racialized women, lesbians, women seeking reproductive freedom, women in the childcare movement, and anti-violence advocates. Recognizing the diversity of women across class, citizenship, race and ethnicity, sexual identity, culture, and (dis)ability, this collection evaluates the efficacy of the wide range of legal and political strategies women have employed, particularly in this post-Charter era. Women's Legal Strategies in Canada is the most comprehensive account of these important issues and will surely become the standard work in the field.

Calling for Change

Author : Elizabeth A. Sheehy
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776606204
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Calling for Change written by Elizabeth A. Sheehy and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique in both scope and perspective, Calling for Change investigates the status of women within the Canadian legal profession ten years after the first national report on the subject was published by the Canadian Bar Association. Elizabeth Sheehy and Sheila McIntyre bring together essays that investigate a wide range of topics, from the status of women in law schools, the practising bar, and on the bench, to women's grassroots engagement with law and with female lawyers from the frontlines. Contributors not only reflect critically on the gains, losses, and barriers to change of the past decade, but also provide blueprints for political action. Academics, community activists, practitioners, law students, women litigants, and law society benchers and staff explore how egalitarian change is occurring and/or being impeded in their particular contexts. Each of these unique voices offers lessons from their individual, collective, and institutional efforts to confront and counter the interrelated forms of systemic inequality that compromise women's access to education and employment equity within legal institutions and, ultimately, to equal justice in Canada. Published in English.

Women and Legal Action

Author : M. Elizabeth Atcheson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Women and Legal Action written by M. Elizabeth Atcheson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Feminist Activism in the Supreme Court

Author : Christopher P. Manfredi
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774809474
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Activism in the Supreme Court written by Christopher P. Manfredi and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1980, the Canadian women's movement has been an active participant in consitutional politics and Charter litigation. This book, through its focus on the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), presents a compelling examination of how Canadian feminists became key actors in developing the constitutional doctrine of equality, and how they mobilized that doctrine to support the movement's policy agenda. The case of LEAF, an organization that has as its goal the use of Charter litigation to influence legal rules and public policy, provides rich ground for Christopher Manfredi's keen analysis of legal mobilization. In a multitude of areas such as abortion, pornography, sexual assault, family law, and gay and lesbian rights, LEAF has intervened before the Supreme Court to bring its understanding of equality to bear on legal policy development. This study offers a deft examination of LEAF's arguments and seeks to understand how they affected the Court's consideration of the issues. Perhaps most important, it also contemplates the long-term effects of the mobilization, and considers the social impact of the legal doctrine that has emerged from LEAF cases. A major contribution to law and society studies, Feminist Activism in the Supreme Court is unparalleled in its analysis of legal mobilization as an effective strategy for social movements. It will be widely read and welcomed by legal scholars, political scientists, lawyers, feminists, and activists.

Women and Legal Action

Author : Canada. Advisory Council on the Status of Women
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book Women and Legal Action written by Canada. Advisory Council on the Status of Women and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Within the Confines

Author : Jennifer M. Kilty
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
ISBN 13 : 0889615160
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Within the Confines written by Jennifer M. Kilty and published by Canadian Scholars’ Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Western feminists have long treated the rule of law as an essential ingredient of social justice; however, as the contributors to this collection remind us, meaningful justice remains out of reach for many women and racialized minorities precisely because the law turns a blind eye to the inequities that structure their daily lives. In fourteen chapters that open vital debates about the erosion of the welfare state and the media's complicity in concealing political injustice, Within the Confines details the brutal ironies of a society that criminalizes the vulnerable while absolving the elite. Distinctive in its focus on Canada, the book traces the linkages among racial, ethnic, sexual, and economic vulnerability and reveals the inadequacies of legislative approaches to socio-historical problems such as drug trafficking, homelessness, infanticide, and the legacies of settler colonial violence. In accessible prose, the authors dismantle the myths behind topics that are often sensationalized in the media-pornography, single motherhood, sex work, filicide, gangs, domestic abuse, prison conditions, HIV nondisclosure-and present alternative arguments that expose the justice system's role in widening the gap between the rich and the poor. What emerges is a poignant challenge to the neoliberal fable that women and minorities in Western democracies now enjoy full equality and an urgent call to action for those who seek to shift institutional norms in more equitable directions. A valuable resource for a wide range of fields, including criminology, sociology, social anthropology, gender studies, political science, social work, and legal history, this multidisciplinary volume offers a fresh perspective on the disturbingly predictable judgments that criminalized women face in Canada.

Women, Law, and Social Change

Author : Brettel Dawson
Publisher : North York, Ont. : Captus Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Law, and Social Change written by Brettel Dawson and published by North York, Ont. : Captus Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sexual Assault in Canada

Author : Elizabeth A. Sheehy
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776619772
Total Pages : 833 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)

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Book Synopsis Sexual Assault in Canada by : Elizabeth A. Sheehy

Download or read book Sexual Assault in Canada written by Elizabeth A. Sheehy and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2012-09-29 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual Assault in Canada is the first English-language book in almost two decades to assess the state of sexual assault law and legal practice in Canada. Gathering together feminist scholars, lawyers, activists and policy-makers, it presents a picture of the difficult issues that Canadian women face when reporting and prosecuting sexual violence. The volume addresses many themes including the systematic undermining of women who have been sexually assaulted, the experiences of marginalized women, and the role of women’s activism. It explores sexual assault in various contexts, including professional sports, the doctor–patient relationship, and residential schools. And it highlights the influence of certain players in the reporting and litigation of sexual violence, including health care providers, social workers, police, lawyers and judges. Sexual Assault in Canada provides both a multi-faceted assessment of the progress of feminist reforms to Canadian sexual assault law and practice, and articulates a myriad of new ideas, proposed changes to law, and inspired activist strategies. This book was created to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Jane Doe’s remarkable legal victory against the Toronto police for sex discrimination in the policing of rape and for negligence in failing to warn her of a serial rapist. The case made legal history and motivated a new generation of feminist activists. This book honours her pioneering work by reflecting on how law, legal practice and activism have evolved over the past decade and where feminist research and reform should lead in the years to come.

Getting a Foot in the Door

Author : Lisa Addario
Publisher : Status of Women
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Getting a Foot in the Door written by Lisa Addario and published by Status of Women. This book was released on 1998 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Racialized Migrant Women in Canada

Author : Vijay Agnew
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802099041
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Book Synopsis Racialized Migrant Women in Canada by : Vijay Agnew

Download or read book Racialized Migrant Women in Canada written by Vijay Agnew and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agnew delves into the public and private spheres of several distinct communities in order to expose the underlying inequalities within Canada's economic, social, legal, and political systems that frequently result in the denial of basic rights to migrant women.

Intersectionality and Beyond

Author : Emily Grabham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134082223
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Intersectionality and Beyond written by Emily Grabham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-08-21 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection addresses the present and the future of the concept of intersectionality within socio-legal studies. Including contributions from a range of international scholars, this book interrogates what has become a key organizing concept across a range of disciplines, most particularly law, political theory, and cultural studies.

Canadian Studies in the New Millennium

Author : Patrick James
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442692111
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Studies in the New Millennium written by Patrick James and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-11-26 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of Canadian Studies is a growing discipline, particularly in the United States. This introductory text offers a thorough and accessible approach to Canadian Studies through comparative analyses of Canada and the United States, their histories, geographies, political systems, economies, and cultures. Among the topics addressed are ways in which Canadian national development has been influenced by the U.S., the role of geography in shaping the country's evolution, and the persistent question of Canada's French-speaking minority, which has been an important and divisive issue since the 1500s. Canadian Studies in the New Millennium is an excellent introduction to Canadian Studies, with chapters written by leading scholars and educators in the field. At a time in which there is a growing mutual dependence between the U.S. and Canada for security, trade, and investment, this text is an ideal tool for understanding the close relationship between the two countries, their shared experiences, and their differing views. Canadian Studies in the New Millennium will be of significant value to students, educators, and practitioners.

The Logics of Gender Justice

Author : Mala Htun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108417566
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Logics of Gender Justice written by Mala Htun and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains when and why governments around the world take action to advance - or undermine - women's rights.

The Gender of Constitutional Jurisprudence

Author : Beverley Baines
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521530279
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Gender of Constitutional Jurisprudence written by Beverley Baines and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To explain how constitutions shape and are shaped by women's lives, the contributors examine constitutional cases pertaining to women in 12 countries, covering cases about reproductive, sexual, familial, socio-economic, and democratic rights, and focussing on women's claims to equality.

Law's Relations

Author : Jennifer Nedelsky
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0195147960
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Law's Relations written by Jennifer Nedelsky and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer Nedelsky claims that we must rethink our notion of autonomy, rejecting the usual vocabulary of control, boundaries and individual rights. If we understand that we are fundamentally in relation to others, she argues, we will recognize that we become autonomous with others.

Canadian Women's Issues

Author : Ruth Roach Pierson
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
ISBN 13 : 9781550284157
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Women's Issues written by Ruth Roach Pierson and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface Acknowledgements 1. The Canadian Women's Movement Documents Marjorie Griffen Cohen 2. The Politics of the Body Documents Ruth Roach Pierson 3.The Mainstream Women's Movement and the Politics of Difference Documents Ruth Roach Pierson 4. Social Policy and Social Services Documents Marjorie Griffen Cohen 5. Women, Law, and the Justice System Documents Paula Bourne 6. Women, Culture, and Communications Philinda Masters Permissions Index

Feminism’s Fight

Author : Barbara Cameron
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774868066
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Feminism’s Fight written by Barbara Cameron and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminism’s Fight explores and assesses feminist strategies to advance gender justice through Canadian federal policy over the past fifty years, from the 1970 Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women to the present. This timely collection tells the crucial story of a transformation in how feminism has been treated by governments and asks how new ways of organizing and new alliances can advance a transformative feminist policy agenda of social and economic equality.