Jhappan, Radha.

Women's Legal Strategies in Canada. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (418 pages)

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?.

9781442683617


Women-Legal status, laws, etc.-Canada.
Women's rights-Canada.
Feminist jurisprudence-Canada.


Electronic books.

KE509 .W66 2002

342.71/0878