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| Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Bertha Wilson; Bertha Wilson |
| Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kim Brooks |
| ISBN: | 9780774817332 077481733X 9780774817325 0774817321 9780774817349 0774817348 |
| OCLC Number: | 1139940589 |
| Description: | 1 ressource en ligne (xi, 328 pages). |
| Contents: | Preface / Justice Claire L'Heureux-DubeIntroduction / Kim BrooksPart 1: Foundations1 Bertha Wilson's Practice Years (1958-75): Establishing a Research Practice and Founding a Research Department in Canada / Angela Fernandez and Beatrice Tice2 A Traditionalist's Property Jurisprudence/ Larissa Katz3 Power, Discretion, and Vulnerability, Justice Wilson and Fiduciary Duty in the Corporate/Commercial Context / Janis Sarra4 A Few More Spokes to the Wheel: Reasonableness, Fairness, and Justice in Justice Bertha Wilson's Approach to Contract Law / Moira L. McConnell5 Giving Emotions Their Due: Justice Bertha Wilson's Response to Intangible Loss in Contract / Shannon Kathleen O'ByrnePart 2: Controversy6 Picking up Where Justice Wilson Left Off: The Tort of Discrimination Revisited / Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey7 Paradigms of Prostitution: Revisiting the Prostitution Reference / Janine Benedet8 Contextualizing Criminal Defences: Exploring the Contribution of Justice Bertha Wilson / Isabel Grant and Debra Parkes9 "Finally I know Where I am Going to Be From": Culture, Context, and Time in a Look Back at Racine v. Woods / Gillian Calder10 Challenging Patriarchy or Embracing Liberal Norms? Justice Wilson's Child Custody and Access Decisions / Susan B. BoydPart 3: Reflections11 But Was She a Feminist Judge? / Beverley Baines12 I Agree/Disagree for the Following Reasons: Convergence, Divergence, and Justice Wilson's "Modest Degree of Creativity" / Marie-Claire Belleau, Rebecca Johnson, and Christina Vinters13 A Way of Being in the World / Lorna Turnbull14 Ideas and Transformation: A Reflection on Bertha Wilson's Contribution to Gender Equality in the Legal Profession / Melina Buckley15 Taking a Stand on Equality: Bertha Wilson and the Evolution of Judicial Education in Canada / Rosemary Cairns Way and T. Brettel Dawson16 Bertha Wilson: "Silences" in a Woman's Life Story / Mary Jane MossmanIndex |
| Series Title: | Law and society |
| Responsibility: | edited by Kim Brooks. |
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Justice Bertha Wilson is an original contribution ... this collection of essays reminds us that all women constitute themselves within conditions of overt and more ambient gender discrimination. Through the lens of one "extraordinary" woman's life, this collection contributes to feminist attempts to develop theories that account for women's capacity for agency, their negotiations, concessions, and transgressions of normative femininity - in short, the relative and shifting constraints and opportunities generated through our interactions with gendered social structures. -- Suzanne Bouclin, Faculty of Law, McGill University * Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2010 * The book is an excellent legacy of Madame Justice Bertha Wilson's life as a lawyer, jurist, role model, and task force chair. Hers was a life that made a difference. -- Joan Brockman * Canadian Journal of Woman and the Law, Vol 22 * Read more...
