Calling for Change

by Sheehy, Elizabeth; Mcintyre, Sheila

• ISBN13: 9780776606200
• ISBN10: 0776606204
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-31
• Publisher: Univ of Ottawa Pr

Summary

Unique in both scope and perspective, Calling for Changeinvestigates the status of women within the Canadian legal profession ten years after the first national report on the subject was published by the Canadian Bar Association. Elizabeth Sheehy and Sheila McIntyre bring together essays that investigate a wide range of topics, from the status of women in law schools, the practising bar, and on the bench, to women's grassroots engagement with law and with female lawyers from the frontlines. Contributors not only reflect critically on the gains, losses, and barriers to change of the past decade, but also provide blueprints for political action. Academics, community activists, practitioners, law students, women litigants, and law society benchers and staff explore how egalitarian change is occurring and/or being impeded in their particular contexts. Each of these unique voices offers lessons from their individual, collective, and institutional efforts to confront and counter the interrelated forms of systemic inequality that compromise women's access to education and employment equity within legal institutions and, ultimately, to equal justice in Canada.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Chapter 1 Introduction	1	(24)
Sheila McIntyre and Elizabeth Sheehy
Part I Engaging Women's Equality: The Changing Context in Canada
Chapter 2 « Égalité, diversité et imputabilité » dans une société néo-libérale: la multiplicité des angles	25	(8)
Nathalie Des Rosiers
Chapter 3 Feminist Alliances in the Face of the Law	33	(20)
Lee Lakeman
Chapter 4 Legal Workplace Technology and Equality for Women Lawyers: Fortifying or Transforming the "Master's House"?	53	(30)
Jane Bailey
Chapter 5 Women in Law: Retreat and Renewal	83	(14)
Mary Eberts
Part II Educating for Change
Chapter 6 Reflections on Employment Equity (the Hiring Component) and Law Schools in Ontario	97	(20)
Emily Carasco
Chapter 7 The Conflicting and Contradictory Dance: The Essential Management of Identity for Women of Colour in the Legal Academy	117	(24)
Camille A. Nelson
Chapter 8 Justicia in Your Face: How to Survive Law as an Anti-Colonial, Anti-Racist, Feminist Activist	141	(8)
Leighann Burns and Zara Suleman
Chapter 9 Educating for Equality: The Meaning of Feminist Administration for Legal Education in Canada	149	(10)
Sanda Rodgers
Chapter 10 "Becoming" a Lawyer: Gender and the Processes of Professional Identity Formation	159	(20)
Hilary Sommerlad
Chapter 11 Legal Education as a Strategy for Change in the Legal Profession	179	(24)
Mary Jane Mossman
Part III Practising Change
Chapter 12 Growing Diversity and Emergent Change: Gender and Ethnicity in the Legal Profession	203	(34)
Fiona M. Kay, Cristi Masuch, and Paula Curry
Chapter 13 An Update on Gender and Diversity in the Legal Profession in Alberta, 1991-2003	237	(16)
Joan Brockman
Chapter 14 Aboriginal Women: Working in Coalition to Advance Sex Equality	253	(10)
Sharon McIvor
Chapter 15 Barriers Between Feminist Clients and Feminist Lawyers: or, What Class Are You In?	263	(4)
Jane Doe
Chapter 16 From Litigator to Litigant and Back Again: Equality in Practice	267	(14)
Beth Symes
Chapter 17 The High Price of Success: The Backlash Against Women Judges in Australia	281	(24)
Rosemary Hunter
Part IV Governing Change
Chapter 18 Les femmes dans la profession juridique: Le rôle des barreaux	305	(20)
Josée Bouchar
Chapter 19 The Second Decade: The Role of the Canadian Bar Association in Implementing the Touchstones Report	325	(14)
Melina Buckley
Chapter 20 Reflections on the Post-Touchstones Decade	339	(6)
Joan Bercovitch
Chapter 21 Reimagining Legal Ethics After Touchstones for Change	345	(22)
Rose Voyvodic
Part V Regrouping for Change
Chapter 22 Looking Back/Looking Forward: Reflections on a Heterodox Legal Career	367	(10)
Diana Majury
Chapter 23 Coalition Politics: Equality in Struggle	377	(16)
Sheila McIntyre
Chapter 24 Looking in the Mirror: Women, Lawyers, and Prisoners	393	(12)
Kim Pate
Chapter 25 Quand Law devient la loi	405	(10)
Michèle L. Caron
Journals Referenced	415