Sexual Assault in Canada : Law, Legal Practice and Women’s Activism / / Elizabeth A. Sheehy, editor.
A challenging look at the state of sexual assault law, legal practice and activism in Canada.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ottawa : : University of Ottawa Press,, 2012. ©2012. |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Open Access e-Books
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (819 pages) :; illustrations (some colour), portraits. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword: Still Punished for Being Female / Claire L'Heureux-Dube
- Introduction / Elizabeth A. Sheehy
- PART I. The Victories of Jane Doe / Elizabeth A. Sheehy
- Jane Doe versus Toronto Commissioners of Police: A View from the Bar / Sean Dewart
- New Zealand's Jane Doe / Julia Tolmie
- Hockey Night in Canada / Laura Robinson
- Indigenous Women and Sexual Assault in Canada / Maria Campbell, Priscilla Campeau, and Tracey Lindberg
- Legal Subversion of the Criminal Justice Process? Judicial, Prosecutorial, and Police Discretion in Edmondson, Kindrat and Brown / Lucinda Vandervort
- The Supreme Court of Canada's Betrayal of Residential School Survivors: Ignorance is No Excuse / Sheila McIntyre
- Sexual Assault and Disabled Women Ten Years after Jane Doe / Fran Odette
- Police Investigation of Sexual Assault Complaints: How Far Have We Come Since Jane Doe? / Teresa DuBois
- Striking Back: The Viability of a Civil Action Against the Police for the "Wrongful Unfounding" of Reported Rapes / Blair Crew
- Third-Wave Anti-rape Activism on Neoliberal Terrain: The Garneau Sisterhood / Lise Gotell
- Sisterhood Will Get Ya: Anti-rape Activism and the Criminal Justice System / Meagan Johnston
- Where Has All the Anger Gone? / Diana Yaros
- Vitreous Fragility: Re-imagining Women through Art / Shary Boyle
- The Jane Doe Coffee Table Book about Rape: Reflections on Rebellious Writing and Teaching / Gillian Calder and Rebecca Johnson
- PART II. Who Benefits From the Sexual Assault Evidence Kit? / Jane Doe
- Perpetuating - and Resisting - Rape Myths in Trial Discourse / Susan Ehrlich
- Questioning "Expert" Knowledges / Sunny Marriner
- Zero Tolerance Some of the Time? Doctors and Sexual Abuse in Ontario / Sanda Rodgers
- Judges and the Reasonable Steps Requirement: The Judicial Stance on Perpetration Against Unconscious Women / Elizabeth A. Sheehy
- An Equality-Oriented Approach to the Admissibility of Similar Fact Evidence in Sexual Assault Prosecutions / David M. Tanovich
- Raising the Age of Sexual Consent: The Renewing of Legalistic Moralism? / Julie Desrosiers
- What's in a Face? Demeanour Evidence in the Sexual Assault Context / Natasha Bakht
- Limits of a Criminal Justice Response: Trends in Police and Court Processing of Sexual Assault / Holly Johnson
- HIV Exposure as Assault: Progressive Development or Misplaced Focus? / Alison Symington
- All That Glitters Is Not Gold: The False Promise of Victim Impact Statements / Rakhi Ruparelia
- Confronting Restorative Justice in Neo-Liberal Times: Legal and Rape Narratives in Conditional Sentencing / Gillian Balfour and Janice Du Mont
- A Feminist Remedy for Sexual Assault: A Quest for Answers / Constance Backhouse
- Afterword / Jane Doe.