Gender, Law & Justice

Gender, Law and Justice explores feminist theoretical frameworks and gendered experiences of Canadian law and the criminal justice system. The authors advance an inter sectional approach that examines how the law structures and is structured by social contexts, socio-demographics and social inequalities based on race, class, sexuality and so on. This Custom Textbook is compiled from a variety of Fernwood Publishing titles and is designed for undergraduate courses related to gender, sexuality and the law. Chapter topics include feminism and theory, marriage and family violence, racism and colonialism, reproductive justice, poverty, labour, the war on drugs, and prison.