Two Firsts: Bertha Wilson and Claire L’Heureux-Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada (A Feminist History Society Book 2019, 9) - Softcover
Bertha Wilson and Claire L’Heureux-Dubé were the first women judges on the Supreme Court of Canada. Their 1980s judicial appointments delighted feminists and shocked the legal establishment. Polar opposites in background and temperament, the two faced many identical challenges.
Constance Backhouse's compelling narrative explores the sexist roadblocks they faced in education, law practice, and on the courts. She profiles their different ways of coping, their landmark decisions for women’s rights, and their less 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. The question for the future becomes: how much of this sexism been relegated to the bins of history, and how much continues?
Constance Backhouse's compelling narrative explores the sexist roadblocks they faced in education, law practice, and on the courts. She profiles their different ways of coping, their landmark decisions for women’s rights, and their less 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. The question for the future becomes: how much of this sexism been relegated to the bins of history, and how much continues?
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The two first women judges on the Supreme Court of Canada were polar opposites but faced many identical challenges, including the entrenched sexism of the legal system.
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- PublisherSecond Story Press
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1772600938
- ISBN 13 9781772600933
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