Women Who Woke up the Law: Inside the Cases that Changed Women's Rights in Canada

Finalist for the Writers' Trust of Canada's Shaugnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.

From the award-winning author of The Abortion Caravan and More Than a Footnote

"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 w...