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Two Firsts : Bertha Wilson and Claire L'Heureux Dube at the Supreme Court of Canada - Constance Backhouse

Two Firsts

Bertha Wilson and Claire L'Heureux Dube at the Supreme Court of Canada

Author: Constance Backhouse

Read by: Annelise Noronha

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Published: 24th August 2020

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Bertha Wilson and Claire L'Heureux-Dube 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?

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