New Essays in Women’s History of Canadian Law
La professeure Lori Chambers est bénéficiaire d'une mention honorable pour notre Concours juridique 2024 dans la catégorie Ouvrage collectif, pour son ouvrage intitulé Essays in the History of Canadian Law, Volume XII: New Essays in Women's History, publié par Toronto en Press 2023.
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This volume is a tribute to decades of feminist historical research, a small slice of the path-breaking, sophisticated, and influential writing that has broken new ground in our study of the history or herstory of the law. Holding individual cases, or particular laws, up to scholarly scrutiny is an effective means of exploring the historical, gendering process of law; putting these cases in context also exposes the relationship between women’s oppression and patriarchy, colonialism, racism, and class conflict.
Narrative method humanizes the law and “permits the pinpointing of the concrete impact of the legal rules upon real people at specific times.” While for lawyers “the story behind the case is almost always irrelevant – what matters are the facts and reasoning” – for legal historians, both the story and the legal dispute are important. Legal history is not presented as a series of cases in which wrongs are righted (and, in fact, often they were not) but rather as stories of “tenacious litigants.” The stories recounted in this volume vary from precedent-setting cases to lesser-known ones, from those driven by a plaintiff’s unrelenting quest for personal justice to others in which state actors dominate. They employ multiple sources, from case law to media reports, trial transcripts, judges’ notes, government and administrative documents, personal papers, and interviews. However different the time period or theme, the authors share a commitment to providing a rich historical and social context, to unravelling the process of legal decision-making, and to explaining the biographies of the people involved. This presentation will provide a brief overview of these essays.
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Lori Chambers
Professor of gender and women's studies at Lakehead University
I am a professor of gender and women's studies at Lakehead University where I have taught since 1999. My area of specialization is women's legal history. I have published 4 monographs in addition to articles and edited collections, and I am a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.