This collection investigates historical cases involving women and gender relations in order to uncover the power dynamics at the heart of the legal system.

Edited by Lori Chambers and Joan Sangster

Introduction
Joan Sangster and Lori Chambers

1. The Trials of Caroline Ferguson: Reputation and Litigation in Quebec, 1852-1857
Eric Reiter

2. A Cause Célèbre: Marriage, Quebec Law, and the Delpit Affair of 1901
Mélanie Méthot

3. The Trials and Travails of Eliza Maria Campbell
Jim Phillips

4. Meunier v. Macdonald and Secord, 1911: A Métis Woman Takes on Prominent Edmonton Settler Businessmen, Politicians, and Land Speculators
Sarah Carter

5. Credibility, Corroboration, and Legal Betrayal of Rape Victims
Constance Backhouse

6. The Execution of Tommasina Teolis: Capital Punishment, Gender, and Ethnicity in Quebec in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Don Fyson

7. The WTEA (1917), Canadian Women’s Suffrage, and Constitutional Thought in World War I
Lyndsay Campbell

8. Discipline as Deterrence: Labour Relations and the Silencing of Feminist Labour Activists
Joan Sangster and Julia Smith

9. Women Not Welcome: Martinie v. the Italian Society of Port Arthur
Laura Nigro, Lori Chambers, and Michel Beaulieu

10. Internal and External Advocacy for Legal Reform: Genesis of the Ontario Family Law Act [1986] 1967-1986
Taylor Starr