Women's Legal Strategies in Canada
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
ISBN-13: 9781442683617
Subjects: Women; Legal status, laws; Women's rights; Feminist jurisprudence
Description: 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?
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: Contents; title: Contributors; title: Part I: Introduction: Why Do Law?; title: 1 Introduction: Feminist Adventures in Law; title: 2 Feminist Movement in Law: Beyond Privileged and Privileging Theory; title: Part II: Equality Strategies; title: 3 Women's (In)Equality before and after the Charter; title: 4 Towards a Democratic Practice of Feminist Litigation?: LEAF'S Changing Approach to Charter Equality; title: 5 The Equality Pit or the Rehabilitation of Justice?; title: Part III: Race and Citizenship; title: 6 Negotiating the Citizenship Divide: Foreign Domestic Worker Policy and Legal Jurisprudence; title: 7 Beyond the Confinement of Gender: Locating the Space of Legal Existence for Racialized Women; title: Part IV: Family and Reproduction; title: 8 Abortion Litigation; title: 9 Legal as Political Strategies in the Canadian Women's Movement: Who's Speaking? Who's Listening?