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Books
Canadian
o   Brooks & Mathen et al., Women, law, and equality: a discussion guide (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010)
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   Faraday et al., Making equality rights real: securing substantive equality under the Charter (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2009)
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)
 
English
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)
 
American
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)
 
Blogs
Cheryl Stephens, Effortlessly Perfect: http://www.cherylstephens.com/women/
 
Websites
Canada
General
National Association of Women and the Law
 
Battered Women's Support Services
 
Justice for Girls
 
Canadian Feminist Alliance For International Action
 
Women Against Violence Against Women
 
Women in government
 
Status of Women Canada
 
LEAF - Women's Legal Education and Action Fund
 
British Columbia
West Coast LEAF
 
South Fraser Women's Services Society
 
Surrey Women’s Centre
 
Vancouver Rape Relief & Women's Shelter
 
Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
 
Ontario
Women's Human Rights Resources
 
International
Lorenzo Cotula, Gender and law: women’s rights in agriculture (Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2006)
  

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