Bertha Wilson and Claire L'Heureux-Dub were the first women judges on the Supreme Court of Canada. One represented English Canada, the other Quebec. Polar opposites in background and temperament, the two faced similar challenges. Their 1980s judicial appointments delighted feminists and shocked the legal establishment.
Constance Backhouse delves into the sexist roadblocks both women had to face in education, law practice, and in the courts. She explores their different ways of coping, their landmark decisions for women's rights, and their less than stellar records on race.
To explore the lives and careers of these two path-breaking women is to venture into a world of legal sexism from a past era. When L'Heureux-Dub sought to enroll at Laval law school (over her father's vehement objection), a university official told her law was "only for men." When Bertha Wilson entered Dalhousie Law School, the Dean suggested she "go home and take up crocheting."
Tracing their efforts to navigate a storm of sexism tells much about the roots of gender inequality from our past. The question becomes, how much of that sexism has been relegated to the bins of history, and how much continues to haunt us?
Published in French.
Автор: Backhouse Edmund Название: Manchu Decadence ISBN: 988199828X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789881998286 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 27570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In 1898 an Englishman walked into a homosexual brothel in Peking and began a journey that he claims took him all the way to the bedchamber of imperial China`s last great ruler, the Empress Dowager Tz`u Hsi.
Автор: Coleman Matt, Backhouse Edmund Название: Dirty Chinese: Everyday Slang from "What`s Up? " to "F*%# Off! " ISBN: 1569757275 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781569757277 Издательство: Perseus Рейтинг: Цена: 11430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: GET D RTY Next time you're traveling or just chattin' in Chinese with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including: -Cool slang -Funny insults -Explicit sex terms -Raw swear words Dirty Chinese teaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of China: -What's up? Zenmey ng? -Fuck it, let's party. Q tama, z nmen chuq feng ba. -Who farted? Sh i f ng de p ? -Wanna try doggy-style? Y ob z nliar sh sh gou c o sh ? -Son of a bitch Gouni ngyang de -I'm getting smashed. Wo ganju heduo le. -I can't eat this shit Wo chi b xi q
Автор: Constance Backhouse Название: Claire L`Heureux-Dube: A Life ISBN: 0774836326 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774836326 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 41760.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Both lionized and vilified, Claire L’Heureux-Dub? has shaped the Canadian legal landscape – and in particular its highest court. Only the second woman on the Supreme Court of Canada, L’Heureux-Dub? anchored her approach to cases in their social, economic, and political context. This compelling biography takes a similar tack, tracing the experience of a francophone woman within the male-dominated Quebec legal profession – and within the primarily anglophone world of the Supreme Court. In the process, Constance Backhouse enhances our understanding of the Canadian judiciary, the creation of law, the Quebec socio-legal environment, and the nation’s top court.
Автор: Constance Backhouse Название: Petticoats and Prejudice - Womens Press Classics: Women & Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada ISBN: 0889615225 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780889615229 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Цена: 60770.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Drawing on historical records of womens varying experiences as litigants, accused criminals, or witnesses, this book offers critical insight into womens legal status in nineteenth-century Canada. In an effort to recover the social and political conditions under which women lobbied, rebelled, and in some cases influenced change, Petticoats and Prejudice weaves together forgotten stories of achievement and defeat in the Canadian legal system.Expanding the concept of "heroism" beyond its traditional limitations, this text gives life to some of Canadas lost heroines. Euphemia Rabbitt, who resisted an attempted rape, and Clara Brett Martin, who valiantly secured entry into the all-male legal profession, were admired by their contemporaries for their successful pursuits of justice. But Ellen Rogers, a prostitute who believed all women should be legally protected against sexual assault, and Nellie Armstrong, a battered wife and mother who sought child custody, were ostracized for their ideas and demands. Well aware of the limitations placed upon women advocating for reform in a patriarchal legal system, Constance Backhouse recreates vivid and textured snapshots of these and other womens courageous struggles against gender discrimination and oppression.Employing social history to illuminate the reproductive, sexual, racial, and occupational inequalities that continue to shape womens encounters with the law, Petticoats and Prejudice is an essential entry point into the gendered treatment of feminized bodies in Canadian legal institutions.This book was co-published with The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
Автор: Backhouse Constance Название: Bertha Wilson Et Claire l`Heureux-Dubй: Les Deux Premiиres Femmes А La Cour Suprкme Du Canada ISBN: 0776636685 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780776636689 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 85720.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Bertha Wilson et Claire L'Heureux-Dub ont t les premi res femmes juges la Cour supr me du Canada. L'une repr sentait le Canada anglais, l'autre le Qu bec. De milieux et de temp raments oppos s, les deux femmes ont affront des d fis similaires. Leurs nominations judiciaires dans les ann es 1980 ont ravi les f ministes et bouscul l'establishment juridique. Constance Backhouse plonge ici au coeur des obstacles sexistes que les deux femmes ont affront s en ducation, en pratique du droit et dans les cours de justice. Elle explore les divers moyens que celles-ci ont utilis s pour les surmonter, de m me que les d cisions marquantes qu'elles ont prises pour d fendre les droits des femmes et leur traitement mitig de la question raciale. Explorer les vies et les carri res de ces deux pionni res, c'est s'aventurer dans un monde de sexisme l gal appartenant une poque pass e. Quand L'Heureux-Dub a voulu s'inscrire la Facult de droit de l'Universit Laval (d fiant ainsi son p re), un fonctionnaire de l'universit lui a r pondu que le droit tait une discipline r serv e aux hommes . Quand Bertha Wilson est entr e la Facult de droit de Dalhousie University, le doyen lui a sugg r de retourner la maison et se mettre au crochet . Rappeler leurs efforts que ces deux femmes ont d ploy s pour naviguer dans une temp te de sexisme r v le les fondements des in galit s de genre dans notre pass . La question est maintenant: quelle part de ce sexisme a t rel gu aux poubelles de l'histoire et quelle part continue de nous hanter ? Publi en anglais.
Автор: Backhouse Constance Название: Deux Grandes Dames: Bertha Wilson Et Claire l`Heureux-Dubй А La Cour Suprкme Du Canada ISBN: 2760335666 ISBN-13(EAN): 9782760335660 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 55130.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Bertha Wilson and Claire L'Heureux-Dub were the first women judges on the Supreme Court of Canada. One represented English Canada, the other Quebec. Polar opposites in background and temperament, the two faced similar challenges. Their 1980s judicial appointments delighted feminists and shocked the legal establishment.
Constance Backhouse delves into the sexist roadblocks both women had to face in education, law practice, and in the courts. She explores their different ways of coping, their landmark decisions for women's rights, and their less than stellar records on race. To explore the lives and careers of these two path-breaking women is to venture into a world of legal sexism from a past era. When L'Heureux-Dub sought to enroll at Laval law school (over her father's vehement objection), a university official told her law was "only for men." When Bertha Wilson entered Dalhousie Law School, the Dean suggested she "go home and take up crocheting." Tracing their efforts to navigate a storm of sexism tells much about the roots of gender inequality from our past. The question becomes, how much of that sexism has been relegated to the bins of history, and how much continues to haunt us? Published in French.
Автор: Constance Backhouse Название: Reckoning with Racism: Police, Judges, and the RDS Case ISBN: 0774868228 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774868228 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 62700.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание:
In 1997, complacency about the racial neutrality of a predominantly white judiciary was shattered as the Supreme Court of Canada considered a complaint of judicial racial bias for the first time. The judge in question was Corrine Sparks, the country’s first Black female judge.
Reckoning with Racism considers the RDS case. A white Halifax police officer had arrested a Black teenager, placed him in a choke hold, and charged him with assaulting an officer and obstructing arrest. In acquitting the teen, Judge Sparks remarked that police sometimes overreacted when dealing with non-white youth. The acquittal held, but most of the white appeal judges critiqued her comments, based on the tradition that the legal system was non-racist unless proven otherwise. That became a matter of wide debate.
This book assesses the case of alleged anti-white judicial bias, the surrounding excitement, the dramatic effects on those involved, and the significance for the Canadian legal system.
Автор: Backhouse Paul Название: Campfires in Context Bar Is2114 ISBN: 1407306553 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781407306551 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 110350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This monograph although concentrating on the Southern High Plains area (USA) represents a tremendous step forward in understanding fire technology and hot rock technology and their role and relationship within hunter-gatherer societies. It not only elevates the status of hearths and hearthstones as worthy of study within hunter-gatherer research but equally important, also presents new avenues for that research. Contents: 1) Introduction; 2) Background; 3) Approach and Methodology; 4) Geographic Focus; 5) Theoretical Framework; 6) Ethnographic Context; 7) Experimental Approach; 8) Archaeological Results and Analysis; 9) Discussion and Potential for Application to Other Regions; 10) Conclusion.
