Women Who Woke Up the Law
Women Who Woke Up the Law
Marilyn Stanley
, Lynn Mullen
, Alanna Virtue
, Dot Mann
, Sindi Nika
, toni velthuis
, Anna Krentz
, Melissa Kohlman
, Natasha Andres
, Jude Castillo
, Presley Robertson
, Deana Bueley
, Brad MULLER
, SI Parker
, Shelley Butcher
, Christine Labelle
, Agnes Marshall
, Sailaxmi Sahoo
, Ryan Woods
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Sarah Dalton
, Patricia Johnson
, Darryl Taylor
, Marc-André Taillefer
, Chantal Comeau
, Sarah Schwartz
, Catherine Booker
, Noelle Walsh
, Joanna McFarlane-Frampton
, Mary Montague
, Andrea Pole
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Tami Osato
, Holly Elisabeth
, Mary Therrien
, Emily Steiner
, Mary-Esther Lee
, PATRICIA SOPEL
, Brittney Warren
, Katie McGaire
, Claire Gear
, katie locke
, Kim Cappellina
, kristine hibbs
, Barry Kazimer
, Mae Whyte
, Spencer Reitenbach
, Melissa Rivosecchi
, Desmond Tsang
, Joshua Lewis
, Mireille Goulet
, Danielle MacKinlay
, Marnie Young
, Ashley Pocrnich
, Virginia Reddin
, Carol Brown
, Kim Carswell
, Jill Rothwell
, Joe Titone
, tom stormonth
, Sande Minke
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Leslie Vermeer
, Macy McCubbing
, Diane O'Flaherty
, Sara Conway
, Liz Carlin
, Dora Dueck
, Rosa Cross
, Rodney Cross
, Marin Beck
, Shane Lange
, Shawna Moodie
, Lara Maynard
, Fred Wong
, Roland Schigas
, Nicole Maxwell
, Tanis Anne
, Han Monarch
, Michelle Arsenault
, zelda dwyer
, Sue Baues
, Susan Fitzgerald
, Kartik Gupta
, Susan Baues
, diana kirkwood
, Benita Hartwell
, Roberta Cox
, Ariel Kroon
, Lei Shimbashi
, Paula Ritchie
, Janet Meisner
, M M English
, Lynn Bechtel
, Julie M.
, GLORIA KONELSKY
, Cherryl Koylass
, Robert Hykawy
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Georgia Aliphtiras
, Cheryl Johnson
, Chantal Vulker
, Remi Gunn
, Marla Schecter Howard
, Kim Akins
, C. Ray
, Catherine Westerberg
, Patricia McKeown
, Nancy Reid
, Ellen Clarke
, Rita Osullivan
, Sharon Forzley
, Ken Gilmour
, Amanda Clarke
, Sandra Lackie
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“Who was the woman trying to convince a jury in a tiny courthouse in Nova Scotia that it was self-defense when she killed her partner; and who was the young woman walking into the palais de justice in small-town Quebec arguing that it was her choice, not his, to have an abortion? What was it that pushed these women on, even when the lawyers said it was hopeless?”
From the award-winning author of The Abortion Caravan and More Than a Footnote, Karin Wells once again pulls us into the lives—and this time, the legal trials—of a group of women integral to the advancement of women’s rights in Canada. Eliza Campbell, Chantale Daigle, Jeannette Corbiere Lavell—these Women Who Woke Up the Law often had no idea what they were facing in the courts, or the price they would have to pay. Some never saw justice themselves, but they left a legal legacy. Their bold determination is something we need now more than ever to guard the hard-won gains in women’s rights.
