Women's legal strategies in Canada
By: edited by Radha Jhappan.
Contributors: Jhappan, Radha.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
Subjects: Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Canada; Women's rights -- Canada; Feminist jurisprudence -- Canada; Féminisme et droit -- Canada; Femmes -- Droit -- Canada; Femmes -- Droits -- Canada; Actions et défenses -- Canada; Droit constitutionnel -- Canada
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : why do law?; title: Introduction : feminist adventures in law / Radha Jhappan; title: Feminist movement in law : beyond privileged and privileging theory / Sheila McIntyre; title: Equality strategies; title: Women's (in)equality before and after the Charter / Diana Majury; title: Towards a democratic practice of feminist litigation? : LEAF's changing approach to Charter equality / Lise Gotell; title: The equality pit or the rehabilitation of justice? / Radha Jhappan; title: Race and citizenship; title: Negotiating the citizenship divide : foreign domestic worker policy and legal jurisprudence / Daiva Stasiulis and Abigail B. Bakan; title: Beyond the confinement of gender : locating the space of legal existence for racialized women / Joanne St. Lewis; title: Family and reproduction; title: Abortion litigation / Sheilah L. Martin; title: Legal as political strategies in the Canadian women's movement : who's speaking? who's listening? / Susan Philips.