Women's Legal Strategies in Canada.

Intro -- 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?.

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?.

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