Contemporary legal thought has been powerfully influenced by Critical Legal Studies, a
school of legal scholars whose work has sustained a continuing radical critique of …

We think of our family life as very personal, but in fact it is shaped by influences well beyond
our control. Families, Labour and Love identifies the ways in which family and personal life …

This is the 6th and last edition of my edited book (first published in 1984) which represents a
26-year collaboration with well-known family scholars in Canada and has been widely used …

" The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product
which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those …

Law and legal discourse both presuppose and produce legal subjects. Views on the nature
of the legal subject will constantly shift, therefore, with changes in the law. Contextual …

Examining recent (1990 to 1993) reported Canadian cases on custody and access, I
document a movement toward a re-privatisation of “family” to a traditional patriarchal nuclear …

This title was first published in 2002. Gender has become a culturally laden signifier.
Sometimes used to differentiate the social from the biological, gender itself has become …

N THE AFTERNOON of 20 May 1987, PR was admitted, at her request, to hospital in
Vancouver, to give birth. Approximately three hours later she was seen by Dr Z., the …

This article examines resistance to law reform initiatives in the field of child support and child
custody and access law by those who say that special rights are being given to women and …

Works are arranged in a few broad subject categories. Because the original conference was
about women in the legal profession, the section on legal education and the legal profession …