Women's Legal Strategies in Canada / / ed. by Radha Jhappan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bakan, Abigail B.,; Gotell, Lise,; Jhappan, Radha,; Majury, Diana,; Martin, Sheilah L.,; Mclntyre, Sheila,; Phillips, Susan D.,; St Lewis, Joanne,; Stasiulis, Daiva,
• HerausgeberIn: Jhappan, Radha,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Part I. Introduction: Why Do Law? -- 1. Introduction: Feminist Adventures in Law -- 2. Feminist Movement in Law: Beyond Privileged and Privileging Theory -- Part II. Equality Strategies -- 3. Women's (In)Equality before and after the Charter -- 4. Towards a Democratic Practice of Feminist Litigation? LEAF's Changing Approach to Charter Equality -- 5. The Equality Pit or the Rehabilitation of Justice? -- Part III. Race and Citizenship -- 6. Negotiating the Citizenship Divide: Foreign Domestic Worker Policy and Legal Jurisprudence -- 7.Beyond the Confinement of Gender: Locating the Space of Legal Existence for Racialized Women -- Part IV. Family and Reproduction -- 8. Abortion Litigation -- 9. Legal as Political Strategies in the Canadian Women's Movement: Who's Speaking? Who's Listening?