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Law Gender & The Law

Reaction and Resistance

Feminism, Law, and Social Change

edited by Dorothy E. Chunn, Susan Boyd & Hester Lessard

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jul 2008
Category
Gender & the Law, General, Human Rights, Women's Studies
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774814126
    Publish Date
    Jul 2008
    List Price
    $34.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774814119
    Publish Date
    Oct 2007
    List Price
    $95.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774855549
    Publish Date
    Jul 2008
    List Price
    $34.95

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In this timely volume, contributors from various disciplines analyze reaction and resistance to feminism in several areas of law and policy – child custody, child poverty, sexual harassment, and sexual assault – and in a number of institutional sites, such as courts, legislatures, families, the mainstream media, and the academy. Collectively, their studies paint a complicated, often contradictory, picture of feminism, law, and social change, offering feminists and activists empirically grounded knowledge to develop legal and political strategies for change.

About the authors

 

Dorothy E. Chunn, Professor of Sociology, received her B.A. in English and History from the University of British Columbia and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Toronto. Her research and publications are concentrated primarily in the area of feminist socio-legal studies. Recent research projects have focused on feminism, law, and social change in Canada since the 1960s; poor women’s experiences of health and housing; and the reform of Canadian child custody law.

 

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Editorial Reviews

This text provides an analysis of the resistance to feminism evident in the Courts, government, media and academia. As a result of these views, a wide range of social ills have been allowed to proliferate including child poverty, sexual harassment and sexual assault. […] The book is a well organized outline of what remains to be done, and what can be done, to achieve equality between men and women.

Ronald F. MacIsaac, Verdict, Issue 116, March 2008

Reaction and Resistance adds to the extant critical and feminist theorizing about the workings of social movements and counter-movements. Their research provides empirically grounded knowledge that feminists and other social activists can draw on in developing new legal and political strategies…. The contributors, taken together, bring an interdisciplinary, historically informed approach to the analysis of feminism, law, and social change. The chapters provide exemplars of the complete range of issues that feminists have addressed. They build on and expand the existing work and synthesize knowledge about the dynamics and impacts of feminist social movements.

SirReadaLot, February 2008

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