- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (819 p.) : ill. (chiefly col.), digital file.
- Summary
- A challenging look at the state of sexual assault law, legal practice and activism in Canada.
- Uniform Title
- Sexual assault in Canada (Online)
- Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
- Subject
- Note
- Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also available in print version.
- System Details (note)
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Contents
- Foreword: Still Punished for Being Female / Claire L'Heureux-Dube -- Introduction / Elizabeth A. Sheehy -- PART I. The Victories of Jane Doe / Elizabeth A. Sheehy -- Jane Doe versus Toronto Commissioners of Police: A View from the Bar / Sean Dewart -- New Zealand's Jane Doe / Julia Tolmie -- Hockey Night in Canada / Laura Robinson -- Indigenous Women and Sexual Assault in Canada / Maria Campbell, Priscilla Campeau, and Tracey Lindberg -- Legal Subversion of the Criminal Justice Process? Judicial, Prosecutorial, and Police Discretion in Edmondson, Kindrat and Brown / Lucinda Vandervort -- The Supreme Court of Canada's Betrayal of Residential School Survivors: Ignorance is No Excuse / Sheila McIntyre -- Sexual Assault and Disabled Women Ten Years after Jane Doe / Fran Odette -- Police Investigation of Sexual Assault Complaints: How Far Have We Come Since Jane Doe? / Teresa DuBois -- Striking Back: The Viability of a Civil Action Against the Police for the "Wrongful Unfounding" of Reported Rapes / Blair Crew -- Third-Wave Anti-rape Activism on Neoliberal Terrain: The Garneau Sisterhood / Lise Gotell -- Sisterhood Will Get Ya: Anti-rape Activism and the Criminal Justice System / Meagan Johnston -- Where Has All the Anger Gone? / Diana Yaros -- Vitreous Fragility: Re-imagining Women through Art / Shary Boyle -- The Jane Doe Coffee Table Book about Rape: Reflections on Rebellious Writing and Teaching / Gillian Calder and Rebecca Johnson --
- PART II. Who Benefits From the Sexual Assault Evidence Kit? / Jane Doe -- Perpetuating - and Resisting - Rape Myths in Trial Discourse / Susan Ehrlich -- Questioning "Expert" Knowledges / Sunny Marriner -- Zero Tolerance Some of the Time? Doctors and Sexual Abuse in Ontario / Sanda Rodgers -- Judges and the Reasonable Steps Requirement: The Judicial Stance on Perpetration Against Unconscious Women / Elizabeth A. Sheehy -- An Equality-Oriented Approach to the Admissibility of Similar Fact Evidence in Sexual Assault Prosecutions / David M. Tanovich -- Raising the Age of Sexual Consent: The Renewing of Legalistic Moralism? / Julie Desrosiers -- What's in a Face? Demeanour Evidence in the Sexual Assault Context / Natasha Bakht -- Limits of a Criminal Justice Response: Trends in Police and Court Processing of Sexual Assault / Holly Johnson -- HIV Exposure as Assault: Progressive Development or Misplaced Focus? / Alison Symington -- All That Glitters Is Not Gold: The False Promise of Victim Impact Statements / Rakhi Ruparelia -- Confronting Restorative Justice in Neo-Liberal Times: Legal and Rape Narratives in Conditional Sentencing / Gillian Balfour and Janice Du Mont -- A Feminist Remedy for Sexual Assault: A Quest for Answers / Constance Backhouse --Afterword / Jane Doe.
- OCLC
- ssj0000866063
- Title
Sexual assault in Canada [electronic resource] : law, legal practice, and women's activism / Elizabeth A. Sheehy, editor.
- Imprint
Ottawa [Ont.] : University of Ottawa Press, c2012 (Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2013).
- Series
Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Additional Formats
Also available in print version.
- System Details
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Sheehy, Elizabeth A.
Canadian Electronic Library (Firm)
- Other Form:
Print version 9780776630441