Women's rights resources

 

o       Chunn, Boyd & Lessard, Reaction and resistance: feminism, law, and social change (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2007)

o       Dauvergne et al., Gendering Canada’s refugee process (Ottawa: Status of Women Canada, 2006)

o       Easteal, P., Less than equal: women and the Australian legal system (Chatswood: Butterworths, 2001)

o       Leiper, J., Bar codes: women in the legal profession (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006)

o       McKenzie Leiper, J., Bar codes: women in the legal profession (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006)

o       Morello, K., The Invisible Bar: The Woman Lawyer in America: 1638 to the Present (Boston: Beacon Press, 1986)

o       Sharpe & McMahon, The Persons Case: The Origins and Legacy of the Fight for Legal Personhood (Toronto: Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, 2007)

o       The rights path: Alberta, 3rd ed. (Institute for the Advancement of Aboriginal Women, 2008)

o       Wittenberg-Cox & Maitland, Why women mean business: understanding the emergence of our next economic revolution (Mississauga: John Wiley & Sons, 2008)

o       Women and the law in Alberta, 6th ed. (Calgary Association of Women and the Law, 2005)

 

o       Askola, H., Legal Responses To Trafficking In Women For Sexual Exploitation in the European Union (Oxford: Hart, 2007)

o       MacKinnon, C., Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues (Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006)

o       Shachar, A., Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women’s Rights (Cambridge: Camridge University Press, 2001)

 

o       Levit & Verchick, Feminist legal theory: a primer (New York: New York University Press, 2006)

o       Mossman, M., First women lawyers: a comparative study of gender, law and the legal professions (Portland: Hart, 2006)

o       Souaiaia, A., Contesting justice: women, Islam, law, and society (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008)

o       Sullivan, K., Constitutional Context: Women and Rights Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)

 

Cheryl Stephens, Effortlessly Perfect: http://www.cherylstephens.com/women/

 

National Association of Women and the Law

http://www.nawl.ca/  

 

Battered Women's Support Services

http://www.bwss.org/  

 

Justice for Girls

http://www.justiceforgirls.org/  

 

Shelternet: Making the Links for Abused Women

http://www.shelternet.ca/en/  

 

Canadian Feminist Alliance For International Action

http://www.fafia-afai.org/  

 

Women Against Violence Against Women

 

Women in government

 

Status of Women Canada

 

LEAF - Women's Legal Education and Action Fund

 

West Coast LEAF

 

South Fraser Women's Services Society

 

Surrey Women’s Centre

 

Vancouver Rape Relief & Women's Shelter

 

Centre for Feminist Legal Studies

 

Women's Human Rights Resources

http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/  

 

Lorenzo Cotula, Gender and law: women’s rights in agriculture (Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2006)