Women's Legal Strategies in Canada /

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

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 L...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (512 p.)
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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?

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