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About the Book
The image of “backlash” is pervasive in contemporary debates about the impact of second-wave feminism on law and policy. But does it really explain the resistance to feminist initiatives for social change in contemporary culture?
In this timely volume, contributors from various disciplines analyze reaction and resistance to feminism in several areas of law and policy – child custody, child poverty, sexual harassment, and sexual assault – and in a number of institutional sites, such as courts, legislatures, families, the mainstream media, and the academy. Collectively, their studies paint a more complicated, often contradictory, picture of feminism, law, and social change than the popular image of backlash suggests.
Reaction and Resistance offers feminists and other activists empirically grounded knowledge that can be used to develop legal and political strategies for change.
About the Author(s)
Dorothy E. Chunn is Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University.
Susan B. Boyd is Professor of Law and holds the Chair in Feminist Legal Studies at the University of British Columbia.
Hester Lessard is Professor of Law at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Feminism, Law, and Social Change: An Overview
Dorothy E. Chunn, Susan B. Boyd, and Hester Lessard
Part 1: Media Representations of Feminism, Anti-Racism, and Their Counter-Movements
2 “Take It Easy Girls”: Feminism, Equality, and Social Change in the Media
Dorothy E. Chunn
3 Virtual Backlash: Representations of Men’s “Rights” and Feminist “Wrongs” in Cyberspace
Robert Menzies
4 Imperial Longings, Feminist Responses: Print Media and the Imagining of Nationhood after 9/11
Sunera Thobani
Part 2: Sexual Terrains: Criminal Law and the Campus
5 The Discursive Disappearance of Sexualized Violence: Feminist Law Reform, Judicial Resistance, and Neo-liberal Sexual Citizenship
Lise Gotell
6 Backlash in the Academy: The Evolution of Campus Sexual Harassment Regimes
Hester Lessard
Part 3: Familial Identities and Neo-Liberal Reform
7 Feminism, Fathers’ Rights, and Family Catastrophes: Parliamentary Discourses on Post-Separation Parenting, 1966-2003
Susan B. Boyd and Claire F.L. Young
8 Child-Centred Advocacy and the Invisibility of Women in Poverty Discourse and Social Policy
Wanda Wiegers
9 Challenging Heteronormativity? Reaction and Resistance to the Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships
Claire F.L. Young and Susan B. Boyd
Contributors
Index
Reviews
“This is an excellent collection that gets to the heart of a number of very important policy debates in Canada from a feminist legal standpoint. The two major strands that weave through all of the papers – backlash and the effects of neoliberalism – are very important both theoretically and from an activist perspective. Greater understanding of how these larger social processes work will provide significant strength to scholarly and activist communities.”
– Audrey Kobayashi, Queen’s Research Chair, Department of Geography, Queen’s University
Reaction and Resistance adds to the extant critical and feminist theorizing about the workings of social movements and counter-movements. Their research provides empirically grounded knowledge that feminists and other social activists can draw on in developing new legal and political strategies….
The contributors, taken together, bring an interdisciplinary, historically informed approach to the analysis of feminism, law, and social change.
The chapters provide exemplars of the complete range of issues that feminists have addressed. They build on and expand the existing work and synthesize knowledge about the dynamics and impacts of feminist social movements.
-SirReadaLot, February 2008
This text provides an analysis of the resistance to feminism evident in the Courts, government, media and academia. As a result of these views, a wide range of social ills have been allowed to proliferate including child poverty, sexual harassment and sexual assault. […] The book is a well organized outline of what remains to be done, and what can be done, to achieve equality between men and women.
- Ronald F. MacIsaac, Verdict, Issue 116, March 2008
Sample Chapter
Front Matter and Chapter One
Related Topics
Law
Gender Studies
Sociology
Film & Media Studies
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