Women, law, and social change

About this book

"Coming on the heels of the highly popular fourth edition, Women, Law and Social Change, 5e continues to provide a foundation for how Canadian law and legal process have connected or disconnected women. Using a greater array of precedent-setting cases and stories, including Murdoch, Morgentaler, Bliss, and Brooks, this new edition offers an expanded glimpse at more than a century of struggle for women’s inclusion in the law. To this end, Women, Law and Social Change, 5e has included a new section dedicated to engaging with the legal process to argue for women’s equal inclusion in law. A ́toolkit́ has been added to provide the reader with important legal provisions and policy commitments, stances, judicial methods, and strategies. Further, the collection of cases in this section examines the evolution of jurisprudence and substantive equality, assessments of credibility, and reasonable doubt in criminal cases, same-sex marriage case law, and more than 20 years of sexual-assault law reform. The book concludes with a series of speeches and writings by leading feminist legal scholars and judges, past and contemporary, calling upon academics and the legal professions to be true to the values of inclusion and continue to challenge injustice."--pub. desc.