02265cam a2200349 4500 596458075 TxAuBib 20220729120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781772601527 1772601527 8e156eeb-2ce6-4dde-a235-e1519d6df465 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5651641 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Backhouse, Constance. Two Firsts [Libby] : Bertha Wilson and Claire L'Heureux Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada. Second Story Press, 2020. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 144MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 144MB. sexism. the law. female judges. Supreme Court of Canada. History. Nonfiction. Biography & Autobiography. HTML:<p>Bertha Wilson and Claire L'Heureux-Dubé were the first women judges on the Supreme Court of Canada. Their 1980s judicial appointments delighted feminists and shocked the legal establishment. Polar opposites in background and temperament, the two faced many identical challenges. Constance Backhouse's compelling narrative explores the sexist roadblocks both women faced in education, law practice, and in the courts. She profiles their different ways of coping, their landmark decisions for women's rights, and their less stellar records on race. To explore the lives and careers of these two path-breaking women is to venture into a world of legal sexism from a past era. The question becomes, how much of that sexism has been relegated to the bins of history, and how much continues?</p> <p>See https://secondstorypress.ca/teachers-guides for supplementary materials.</p>. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-29 20:00:03. Noronha, Annelise. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8e156eeb-2ce6-4dde-a235-e1519d6df465&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=8e156eeb-2ce6-4dde-a235-e1519d6df465&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)