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Law Gender & The Law

Women's Legal Strategies in Canada

edited by Radha Jhappan

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2002
Category
Gender & the Law, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women's Studies
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780802076670
    Publish Date
    Aug 2002
    List Price
    $61.00
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780802007216
    Publish Date
    Aug 2002
    List Price
    $139.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781442683617
    Publish Date
    Jul 2002
    List Price
    $136.00

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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.

About the author

Radha Jhappan is Associate Professor at Carleton University in the Department of Political Science. She has published in the areas of indigenous peoples' politics and law, Canadian socio-political history, constitutional law and politics, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, race and gender in feminist theory, and feminist legal theory and litigation strategies.

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