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

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 when the lawyers said it was hopeless?”

Karin Wells once again pulls us into the lives—and t...