Women's legal strategies in Canada / edited by Radha Jhappan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jhappan, Radha.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Legal status, laws, etc--Canada.

Women.

Women--Legal status, laws, etc.

Actions and defenses.

Feminist jurisprudence.

Canada.

Feminist jurisprudence--Canada.

Women's rights--Canada.

Women's rights.

Actions and defenses--Canada.

Constitutional law--Canada.

Constitutional law.

Physical Description:

ix, 407 p ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2002]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

080200721X

080207667X

OCLC:

48532246