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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 L...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Jhappan, Radha
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Women's rights.
Feminist jurisprudence.
Actions and defenses.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
LAW > Gender & the Law.
LAW > Public.
LAW > Constitutional.
Droit constitutionnel > Canada.
Actions et defenses > Canada.
Femmes > Droits > Canada.
Femmes > Droit > Canada.
Feminisme et droit > Canada.
Constitutional law > Canada.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Canada.
Actions and defenses > Canada.
Women's rights > Canada.
Feminist jurisprudence > Canada.
Canada.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : why do law?
  • Introduction : feminist adventures in law / Radha Jhappan
  • Feminist movement in law : beyond privileged and privileging theory / Sheila McIntyre
  • Equality strategies
  • Women's (in)equality before and after the charter / Diana Majury
  • Towards a democratic practice of feminist litigation? : LEAF's changing approach to Charter equality / Lise Gotell
  • The equality pit or the rehabilitation of justice? / Radha Jhappan
  • Race and citizenship
  • Negotiating the citizenship divide: foreign domestic worker policy and legal jurisprudence / Daiva Stasiulis and Abigail B. Bakan
  • Beyond the confinement of gender: locating the space of legal existence for racialized women / Joanne St. Lewis
  • Family and reproduction
  • Abortion litigation / Sheilah L. Martin
  • Legal as political strategies in the Canadian women's movement : who's speaking? who's listening? / Susan Philips.

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