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Two Firsts - Bertha Wilson and Claire L'Heureux Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada - A Feminist History Society Book, Book 9 (Unabridged) by Constance Backhouse

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Two Firsts - Bertha Wilson and Claire L'Heureux Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada - A Feminist History Society Book, Book 9 (Unabridged)

Author
Constance Backhouse
Narrator
Annelise Noronha
Publisher
Second Story Press
Publish Date
24 August 2020
Run Time
10 hours 2 minutes
Format
Audiobook
Genre
History of the Americas, Biography: general, Gender studies: women and girls
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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 both women faced in education, law practice, and in 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 becomes, how much of that sexism has been relegated to the bins of history, and how much continues?

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Author
Constance Backhouse
Narrator
Annelise Noronha
Duration
10 hours 2 minutes
Release Date
24 August 2020
ISBN
9781772601527
Format
Audiobook
Publisher
Second Story Press
Genre
History of the Americas, Biography: general, Gender studies: women and girls

Synopsis

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 both women faced in education, law practice, and in 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 becomes, how much of that sexism has been relegated to the bins of history, and how much continues?

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