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Unique in both scope and perspective, Calling for Change investigates the status of women within the Canadian legal profession ten years after the first national report on the subject was published by the Canadian Bar Association. Elizabeth Sheehy and Sheila McIntyre bring together essays that investigate a wide range of topics, from the status of women in law schools, the practising bar, and on the bench, to women's grassroots engagement with law and with female lawyers from the frontlines. Contributors not only reflect critically on the gains, losses, and barriers to change of the past decade, but also provide blueprints for political action. Academics, community activists, practitioners, law students, women litigants, and law society benchers and staff explore how egalitarian change is occurring and/or being impeded in their particular contexts. Each of these unique voices offers lessons from their individual, collective, and institutional efforts to confront and counter the interrelated forms of systemic inequality that compromise women's access to education and employment equity within legal institutions and, ultimately, to equal justice in Canada.
| Ch. 1 | Introduction | 1 |
| Ch. 2 | "Egalite, diversite et imputabilite" dans une societe neo-liberale : la multiplicite des angles | 25 |
| Ch. 3 | Feminist alliances in the face of the law | 33 |
| Ch. 4 | Legal workplace technology and equality for women lawyers : fortifying or transforming the "master's house"? | 53 |
| Ch. 5 | Women in law : retreat and renewal | 83 |
| Ch. 6 | Reflections on employment equity (the hiring component) and law schools in Ontario | 97 |
| Ch. 7 | The conflicting and contradictory dance : the essential management of identity for women of colour in the legal academy | 117 |
| Ch. 8 | Justicia in your face : how to survive law as an anti-colonial, anti-racist, feminist activist | 141 |
| Ch. 9 | Educating for equality : the meaning of feminist administration for legal education in Canada | 149 |
| Ch. 10 | "Becoming" a lawyer : gender and the processes of professional identity formation | 159 |
| Ch. 11 | Legal education as a strategy for change in the legal profession | 179 |
| Ch. 12 | Growing diversity and emergent change : gender and ethnicity in the legal profession | 203 |
| Ch. 13 | An update on gender and diversity in the legal profession in Alberta, 1991-2003 | 237 |
| Ch. 14 | Aboriginal women : working in coalition to advance sex equality | 253 |
| Ch. 15 | Barriers between feminist clients and feminist lawyers : or, what class are you in? | 263 |
| Ch. 16 | From litigator to litigant and back again : equality in practice | 267 |
| Ch. 17 | The high price of success : the backlash against women judges in Australia | 281 |
| Ch. 18 | Les femmes dans la profession juridique : Le role des barreaux | 305 |
| Ch. 19 | The second decade : the role of the Canadian Bar Association in implementing the Touchstones report | 325 |
| Ch. 20 | Reflections on the post-Touchstones decade | 339 |
| Ch. 21 | Reimagining legal ethics after Touchstones for Change | 345 |
| Ch. 22 | Looking back/looking forward : reflections on a heterodox legal career | 367 |
| Ch. 23 | Coalition politics : equality in struggle | 377 |
| Ch. 24 | Looking in the mirror : women, lawyers, and prisoners | 393 |
| Ch. 25 | Quand Law devient la loi | 405 |
Overview
Unique in both scope and perspective, Calling for Change investigates the status of women within the Canadian legal profession ten years after the first national report on the subject was published by the Canadian Bar Association. Elizabeth Sheehy and Sheila McIntyre bring together essays that investigate a wide range of topics, from the status of women in law schools, the practising bar, and on the bench, to women's grassroots engagement with law and with female lawyers from the frontlines. Contributors not only...