Acknowledgments
1 Feminism, Law, and Social Change: An Overview / Dorothy E. Chunn, Susan B. Boyd, and Hester Lessard
Part 1: Media Representations of Feminism, Anti-Racism, and Their Counter-Movements
2 “Take It Easy Girls”: Feminism, Equality, and Social Change in the Media / Dorothy E. Chunn
3 Virtual Backlash: Representations of Men’s “Rights” and Feminist “Wrongs” in Cyberspace / Robert Menzies
4 Imperial Longings, Feminist Responses: Print Media and the Imagining of Nationhood after 9/11 / Sunera Thobani
Part 2: Sexual Terrains: Criminal Law and the Campus
5 The Discursive Disappearance of Sexualized Violence: Feminist Law Reform, Judicial Resistance, and Neo-liberal Sexual Citizenship / Lise Gotell
6 Backlash in the Academy: The Evolution of Campus Sexual Harassment Regimes / Hester Lessard
Part 3: Familial Identities and Neo-Liberal Reform
7 Feminism, Fathers’ Rights, and Family Catastrophes: Parliamentary Discourses on Post-Separation Parenting, 1966-2003 / Susan B. Boyd and Claire F.L. Young
8 Child-Centred Advocacy and the Invisibility of Women in Poverty Discourse and Social Policy / Wanda Wiegers
9 Challenging Heteronormativity? Reaction and Resistance to the Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships / Claire F.L. Young and Susan B. Boyd
Contributors
Index
This is an excellent collection that gets to the heart of a number of very important policy debates in Canada from a feminist legal standpoint. The two major strands that weave through all of the papers - backlash and the effects of neoliberalism - are very important both theoretically and from an activist perspective. Greater understanding of how these larger social processes work will provide significant strength to scholarly and activist communities. -- Audrey Kobayashi, Queen's Research Chair, Department of Geography, Queen's University
Dorothy E. Chunn is a professor of sociology at Simon Fraser University. Susan B. Boyd is a professor of saw and holds the Chair in Feminist Legal Studies at the University of British Columbia. Hester Lessard is a professor of law at the University of Victoria.
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*
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*
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