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According to Wikipedia , Constance Barbara Backhouse, is a Canadian legal scholar and historian, specializing in gender and race discrimination. She is a Distinguished University Professor and University Research Chair at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Canada. In addition to her academic publications, Backhouse is the author of several books on feminist- and race-related legal rights topics. Backhouse is President of the American Society for Legal History, and is the first non-US scholar to hold this position.
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1980 1990 2000 2010 0 25 50 75 100 125 150 175 200 225 250 Published Works Colour-Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada, 1900-1950 (1999) Petticoats and prejudice : women and law in nineteenth-century Canada (1993) Challenging Times: The Women's Movement in Canada and the United States (1992) Desperate Women and Compassionate Courts: Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century Canada (1984) Married Women's Property Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada (1988) The White Women's Labor Laws: Anti-Chinese Racism in Early Twentieth-Century Canada (1996) Nineteenth-Century Canadian Prostitution Law: Reflection of a Discriminatory Society (1985) (28)The secret oppression: Sexual harassment of working women (1978) (21)Pure Patriarchy: Nineteenth-Century Canadian Marriage (1986) (20)The Chilly Climate for Women Judges: Reflections on the Backlash from the Ewanchuk Case (2003) (19)'To Open the Way for Others of My Sex': Clara Brett Martin's Career as Canada's First Woman Lawyer (1985) (18)Involuntary Motherhood: Abortion, Birth Control and the Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada (1983) (14)Nineteenth-Century Canadian Rape Law 1800-1892 (1983) Racial Segregation in Canadian Legal History: Viola Desmond's Challenge, Nova Scotia, 1946 (1994) (13)Law, society and the state : essays in modern legal history (1998) The Tort of Seduction: Fathers and Daughters in Nineteenth-Century Canada (1986) (11)Shifting Patterns in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Custody Law (1981) Sexual Harassment: A Feminist Phrase That Transformed the Workplace (2012) Gender and Race in the Construction of 'Legal Professionalism': Historical Perspectives (2003) Skewering the Credibility of Women: A Reappraisal of Corroboration in Australian Legal History (2000) (8)The Fleck Strike: A Case Study in the Need for First Contract Arbitration (1980) (8)Fighting sexual harassment : an advocacy handbook (1981) (8)Desexualizing Rape: A Dissenting View on the Proposed Rape Amendments (1980) (8)The Doctrine of Corroboration in Sexual Assault Trials in Early Twentieth-Century Canada and Australia (2001) (8)A Feminist Remedy for Sexual Assault: A Quest for Answers (2012) (7)'I Was Unable to Identify with Topsy' - Carrie M. Best's Struggle Against Racial Segregation in Nova Scotia, 1942 (1998) (7)Revisiting the Arthurs Report Twenty Years Later (2003) The Chilly Climate for Faculty Women at Western: Postscript to the Backhouse Report (1995) (7)Men's Laws, Women's Lives (1991) White Female Help and Chinese-Canadian Employers: Race, Class, Gender, and Law in the Case of Yee Clun, 1924 (1994) (6)The celebrated abortion trial of Dr. Emily Stowe, Toronto, 1879. (1991) Power, Place and Identity: Historical Studies of Social and Legal Regulation in Quebec (1999) People and Place: Historical Influences on Legal Culture (2005) 'Race', gender and nation in history and law (2001) The Changing Landscape of Canadian Legal Education (2001) (4)‘Her protests were unavailing’: Australian legal understandings of rape, consent and sexuality in the ‘roaring twenties’ (2000) A Comparative Study of Canadian and American Rape Law (1984) (3)Justice Bertha Wilson and the Politics of Feminism (2008) (3)The Shining Sixpence: Women's Worth in Canadian Law at the End of the Victorian Era (1996) (3)Gretta Wong Grant: Canada's First Chinese-Canadian Female Lawyer (1996) (3)Bias in Canadian Law: A Lopsided Precipice (1998) (3)Women Faculty at the University of Western Ontario: Reflections on the Employment Equity Award (1988) (3)Governing the Hearth: Law and the Family in Nineteenth-Century America. Michael Grossberg. (1986) (3)A Comparative Survey of Canadian and American Rape Law (2016) (2)Labour Unions and Anti-Combines Policy (1976) (2)Physicians, abortions, and the law in early twentieth-century Ontario. (1993) 'Race' Definition Run Amuck: 'Slaying the Dragon of Eskimo Status' Before the Supreme Court of Canada, 1939 (2001) Clara Brett Martin: Canadian Heroine or Not? (1992) (2)Contesting the legal culture of professionalism (2017) Women and the Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada (1991) Epilogue: The Remarkable Response to the Release of the Chilly Climate Report (1995) (2)Challenging Times: The Women's Movement in Canada & the United States // Review (1994) (2)’Bitterly Disappointed’ at the Spread of ‘Colour-Bar Tactics’: Viola Desmond's Challenge to Racial Segregation, Nova Scotia, 1946 (2010) "Pleasing Appearance. . . Only Adds to the Danger": The 1930 Insanity Hearing of Violet Hypatia Bowyer (2006) MCKENZIE LEIPER, Jean — Bar Codes: Women in the Legal Profession. (2007) (1)Canadian Prostitution Law 1839-1972 (1984) (1)Legal Discrimination Against the Chinese in Canada: The Historical Framework (2005) Bell v Flaming Steer Steak House Tavern: Canada's First Sexual Harassment Decision (1981) (1)'Don't You Bully Me - Justice I Want If There is Justice to Be Had': The Rape of Mary Ann Burton, London, Ontario, 1907 (2003) Edward Greenspan: A Feminist Reflection on the Eulogies Surrounding His Death (2015) Prosecution of Abortions Under Canadian Law, 1900-1950 (1994) International Feminism: Networking Against Female Sexual Slavery. Kathleen Barry, Charlotte Bunch and Shirley Castley (eds.). (1986) (1)Attentat à la dignité du Parlement: Viol dans l'enceinte de la Chambre des communes, Ottawa 1929 (Rape in the House of Commons: The Prosecution of Louis Auger, Ottawa, 1929) (2002) (1)'Your Conscience Will Be Your Own Punishment': The Racially Motivated Murder of Gus Ninham, London, Ontario, 1902 (1999) An Introduction to David Wexler, the Person Behind Therapeutic Jurisprudence (2016) (1)History Will Judge (2009) Nineteenth Century Judicial Attitudes Toward Child Custody, Rape and Prostitution (1987) (0)The Mother Factor in Australian Child Custody Law 1900-1950 (2000) (0)Women and Health: The Growing Controversy (1979) (0)A Revolution in Numbers: Ontario Feminist Lawyers in the Formative Years 1970s-1990s (2009) About the Contributors/Quelques mots sur nos collaboratrices (2006) Reflections on Feminist Activism within Two Distinct Universities: Timing and Location for Transformational Activities (2002) (0)Anti-Semitism and the Law in Quebec City: The Plamondon Case, 1910-15 (2010) A Historical Perspective: Reflections on the Western Employment Equity Award (1995) (0)Petticoats & Prejudices: Women & the Law in Nineteenth Century Canada // Review (1993) (0)Against Pornography: The Evidence of Harm, Russell Diana E. H., Berkeley, CA: Russell Publications, 1993; 169 pp.* (1996) Sexual Assault and Disability: Saskatchewan, 1942 (2010) Marriage, Women, and Property: A Legal History of Enforced Dependence (1987) Essay: What If? Career Paths Not Taken: Claire L’Heureux-Dubé and Politics (2013) Agnes Macphail and Feminism (1992) Criminal Law & Procedure: Cases, Context, Critique Abell Jennie and Sheehy Elizabeth Ottawa: Captus Press, 1993. 314 pp. (1995) The 'Approved' Common Law Degree (2009) (0)1. Rape in the House of Commons: The Prosecution of Louis Auger, Ottawa, 1929 (2008) Access to Justice (2020) 'The Sayer Street Outrage': Gang Rape and Male Law in 19th-Century Toronto (1991) (0)‘Race’ definition run amuck (2017) A Selected History of Sexual Assault Legislation in Canada, 1892-1983 (2011) More Papers This paper list is powered by the following services:
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