Are We 'Persons' Yet? : Law and Sexuality in Canada.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. 'Full Life,' Human Rights, and Sexuality -- From Criminals to 'Consenting Adults' -- Just Ordinary Folks? -- Seeking Human Rights for Lesbians and Gays -- Protection for 'Sexual Orientation' -- Beyond Sexual Orientation Clauses -- The Queers Outside the Codes -- Conclusions -- 2. Chart(er)ed Rights -- Drafting the Charter -- The 'Moratorium' Years -- Implementing 'Equality' -- Early Charter Challenges -- Conclusions -- 3. 'Demonstrably Justifying' Discrimination -- Egan and Nesbit v The Queen -- The Other 'Trilogy' Cases -- The Impact of Egan and Nesbit -- The Queers Still Outside the Charter -- Conclusions -- 4. Human Rights, Charter Rights, and 'Legal Personality' -- Origins of 'Legal Personality' -- Deployment of 'Civil Incapacities' in Later Laws -- 'Personhood' after Edwards -- Fundamental Principles Resurfacing -- 'Core' Rights -- Conclusions -- 5. Are We 'Persons' Yet? -- Participation Rights -- Juridical Rights -- 'Public' Rights -- Private Law Rights -- Not 'Persons' Yet -- 6. Counting Queers -- How Many Queer People Are There? -- Counting Queer Couples -- How Many Children? -- Conclusions -- 7. The High Costs of Being Queer -- Unquantifiable Costs of Discrimination -- Employment Discrimination -- Discrimination and Income -- Net Worth and 'Disposable' Incomes -- Conclusions -- 8. The High Costs of Heterosexuality and the 'Queer Penalty' -- Recognizing Family Sharing -- Subsidizing Adult Dependency -- The New 'Family Wage' System -- The 'Queer Penalty' -- Conclusions -- 9. The 'Benefit' Conundrum and the Politics of Exclusion -- 'Benefits' of Being Excluded -- Distributional Concerns -- Hierarchical Concerns -- Deploying Exclusion -- Rethinking the Benefit Unit -- Conclusions -- 10. The Costs of 'Incrementalism' -- Same-Sex Benefits -- Status of Children -- Incremental Discrimination.

11. The Future of Queer Personhood -- Constitutional Personhood -- European Models -- Canadian Models -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

In 1929 women were declared 'persons' under the British North America Act. Seventy years later a similar move is afoot to establish constitutional personhood for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and transgendered people.

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