Women, law, and social change : core readings and current issues / edited by T. Brettel Dawson.
1990
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Title
Women, law, and social change : core readings and current issues / edited by T. Brettel Dawson.
Published
North York, Ont., Canada : Captus Press, 1990.
Printed
[1991]
Call Number
Comp 332 W8424 1990
ISBN
0921801785 :
Description
xiii, 404 pages ; 28 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)25833469
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1
Introduction
a Introduction to the Materials / T. Brettel Dawson
5
I
Women and the Law: The Gender Issue
1Connections
a Conditions for Work: The Common World of Women / Adrienne Rich
13
b African-American Women's Quilting: A Framework for Conceptualizing and Teaching African-American Women's History / Elsa Barkley Brown
17
c Teaching Law as if Women Really Mattered, or, What About the Washrooms? / Christine Boyle
20
2Legal Process/Feminist Process
a Identifying Law: An Introduction / T. Brettel Dawson
27
b Feminist Scholars Spurring Rethinking of Law / Tamar Lewin
34
c Book Review / Christine Boyle
36
d Feminist Theory as Legal Theory / Jenny Morgan
39
e Feminist Perspectives on Law: Canadian Theory and Practice / Susan Boyd Elizabeth Sheehy
40
3Discussion Issues
A Standards: The 'Reasonable Man'
a Breaking Women's Silences in Law: What Language Can We Use? The Dilemma of the Gendered Nature of Legal Reasoning / Lucinda Finley
47
b Fillipowich v. Nahachewsky et al
51
c Laying Down the Master's Tools: A Feminist Revision of Torts / Lucinda Finley
53
d S.C.C. Allows 'Battered Woman Syndrome' Defence / Cristin Schmitz
55
e New Possibilities for Women as Highest Court Contextualises Wife Assault / Lynne Pearlman
58
f A Lawyer's Primer on Feminist Theory and Tort / Leslie Bender
59
B Standards: Relevance and Evidence
a Sexual Assault Law and Past Sexual Conduct of the Primary Witness: The Construction of Relevance / T. Brettel Dawson
62
b 'Whack' Sex Assault Complainant at Preliminary Inquiry / Cristin Schmitz
67
c Canadian Judges and the Law of Rape: Should the Charter Insulate Bias? / Elizabeth Sheehy
69
II
Women and Legal Inclusion
4Litigation to Construct Women as 'Persons'
a The Significance of Legal Personhood Editorial Note
75
b In Re Mabel P. French
77
c Bradwell v. The State of Illinois
78
d Re Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867
81
e Edwards v. AG for Canada
83
5Legal Method and Legal Research
a Memoirs of an Ontological Exile: The Methodological Rebellions of Feminist Research / Jill McCalla Vickers
89
b Feminism and Legal Method: The Difference it Makes / Mary Jane Mossman
97
c What is Feminist Legal Research / Lynn Smith
100
d Feminism and the Power of Law / Carol Smart
110
6Discussion Issues and Applications
A Statutes: Language and Legal Inclusion
a On Equality and Language / Katherine de Jong
113
b Alice Through the Statutes / Marguerite Ritchie
115
c Are Statutes Written for Men Only? / Elmer Dreiger
119
d The Language of Oppression - Alice Talks Back / Marguerite Ritchie
122
e On Equality and Language / Katherine de Jong
125
B Legal Education and the Legal Profession
a Women Lawyers: Archetype and Alternatives / Dana Jack Rand Jack
129
b 'Invisible' Constraints on Lawyering and Leadership: The Case of Women Lawyers / Mary Jane Mossman
142
c The Legal Lady / McKenzie Porter
145
d Gender Bias Within the Law School: 'The Memo' and its Impact / Sheila McIntyre
149
e The Tyranny of the Majority: A Feminist Critique of Liberalism in Legal Education / Jill Abramczyk
164
f Memorandum: Equality Resolution / Neil Brooks
173
g The Gender Wars: 'Where the Boys Are' / Bruce Feldthusen
174
III
Women and Legal Norms
7Worldview and Standpoint
a Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory / Catharine MacKinnon
181
b Feminism, Marxism, Method and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence / Catharine MacKinnon
184
c Realism, Feminism, Methodology and Law / Maureen Cain
186
d Why has the Sex/Gender System Become Visible Only Now? / Sandra Harding
188
e Theories of Race and Gender: The Erasure of Black Women / Elizabeth Spelman
190
f On Being the Object of Property / Patricia Williams
196
g To See and to be Seen / Marilyn Frye
206
8Voices: Diversity and Commonality
a Ain't I a Woman? (1851) Sojourner Truth
211
b The There That Was and Was Not There / Judy Grahn
211
c In a Different Voice / Carol Gilligan
214
d Moral Orientation and Moral Development / Carol Gilligan
218
e Feminist Discourse: Moral Values and the Law, A Conversation / Isabel Marcus Paul Speigelman
223
f Beyond Gender Difference to a Theory of Care / Joan Tronto
233
g The Culture of Gender: Women and Men of Colour / Carol Stack
234
h Emerging Native Woman / Verna Kirkness
235
i Notes Toward an Anti-Racist Feminism / Himani Bannerji
239
j Difference and Dominance: On Sex Discrimination / Catharine MacKinnon
243
9Discussion Issues
A Agency
a On 'Bringing on the Menses': The Criminal Liability of Women and the Therapeutic Exception in Canadian Abortion Law / Shelley Gavigan
251
b A Jury of Her Peers / Susan Glaspell
253
c Bradwell Revisited / Martha Minow
261
d To See and to be Seen / Marilyn Frye
263
B Truth
a Feminism and the Power of Law / Carol Smart
265
b Case Study: R. v. West
268
c Feminism and the Power of Law / Carol Smart
277
d Violence Against Women / Vivian Smith
278
IV
Women and the Legal Process: Dilemmas and Struggles
10Disengagement: Civil Disobedience
a U.S. v. Susan B. Anthony (1873)
283
b Greenham Common and Civil Disobedience: Making New Meanings for Women / Maeve Doggett
285
c A Case Study: Militarisation and Resistance - The Innu of Sheshatshit, Nitassinan
292
d Militarism, Male Dominance and Law: Feminist Jurisprudence as Oxymoron / Ann Scales
310
11Engagement: Equality Litigation
a The Charter: Driving Women to Abstraction / Sheila McIntyre
315
b Equality Theories and Their Results: Equality-Seeking in a Cold Climate / Jill McCalla Vickers
318
c Equality, Ideology / Colleen Sheppard
327
d One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? / Shelagh Day Gwen Brodsky
333
e The Shaping of Equality / Lynne Pearlman Brettel Dawson
341
f The Merits of the Use of Constitutional Litigation to Unravel the Fabric of Feminisation of Poverty in Canada / Erica Abner
343
12Reconsidering the Significance of Law
a Hoovering as a Hobby: The Common Law's Approach to Work in the Home / Regina Graycar
347
b Are We Family? Lesbian Rights and Women's Liberation / Didi Herman
353
c Feminism and the Power of Law / Carol Smart
361
V
Creating the Future
13Challenge and Change
a Will Women Judges Really Make a Difference? / Madame Justice Wilson
365
b Task Force Reports on Women and the Courts: The Challenge for Legal Education / Elizabeth Schneider
372
c Resolution No. 3: Gender Equality in the Courts
373
d Sexual Assault and the Feminist Judge / Christine Boyle
375
14(Double) Vision and Resistance
a The Madwoman Out of the Attic: Feminist Teaching in the Margins / Susan Heald
381
b Feminist Pedagogy: Critique and Committment
386
c Three Guineas (1938) / Virginia Woolf
393
15Weaving out of Whole Cloth
a The Real World of Technology / Ursula Franklin
397
b Affirmative Action and Legal Knowledge: Planting Seeds in Ploughed Up Ground / Mari Matsuda
397
c He Wahine, He Whenua: Maori Women and the Environment / Ngahuia Te Awekotoku
403