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Evaluating Rights Litigation as a Form of Transformative Feminist Politics

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A Review of Canadian Feminism and the Law: The Women's Legal Education and Action Fund and the Pursuit of Equality by RazackSherene, (1991) Toronto: Second Story Press, 189 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2014

Judy Fudge
Judy Fudge
Affiliation:
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
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Canadian Journal of Law and Society / La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , Printemps/spring 1992 , pp. 153 - 161
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Copyright © Canadian Law and Society Association 1992

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References

1. Bartholomew, Amy and Hunt, Alan, “What's Wrong with Rights” (1990) 9 Law and Inequality at 1Google Scholar; Glasbeek, H. J., “A No-Frills Look at the Charter of Rights and Freedoms or How Politicians and Lawyers Hide Reality” (1989) 9 The Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice at 293Google Scholar; Fudge, Judy, “The Effect of Entrenching a Bill of Rights upon Political Discourse: Feminist Demands and Sexual Violence in Canada” (1989) 17 International Journal of Sociology at 445Google Scholar; Mandel, Michael, The Charter of Rights and the Legalization of Politics (Toronto: Wall and Thompson, 1989)Google Scholar.

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3. Schneider, supra, note 2 at 622-23; Razack quotes this passage at 130–31.

4. Fudge, Judy, “The Public/Private Distinction: The Possibilities of and the Limits to the Use of Charter Litigation to Further Feminist Struggles” (1987) Osgoode Hall Law Journal at 485Google Scholar.

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8. R. v. Schacter (1990), 90 C.L.L.C. 14, 005 (F.C.A.)

9. Razack reports that in November 1988 Attorney General of Ontario Ian Scott told his audience that the recent modifications to the spouse-in-the-house rule which were introduced as a result of a Legal Charter challenge had cost taxpayers $80 million. He added: “I've got to give consideration to cancelling the whole welfare program for those women. That way there won't be any discrimination because there won't be any benefit given” (p. 130).

10. Andrews v. Law Society of British Columbia, [1989] 1 S.C.R. 143.

11. Janzen/Govereauv. Platy Enterprises (1989), 89 C.L.L.C. 17, 011.

12. R. v. Morgentaler, [1988] 1 S.C.R. 30.

13. Herman, supra, note 2; Bartholomew and Hunt, supra, note 1; Schneider, supra, note 2.

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