Tracking and resisting backlash against equality gains in sexual offence law

ID:	HARP-381
Title:	Tracking and resisting backlash against equality gains in sexual offence law
Source:	Canadian Woman Studies , v.20(3) Fall’00 pg 72-83
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Year:	2000
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Keywords:	Canada, economic, social, and cultural rights, equality before the law, gender equality, human rights, law, social equality, social security, woman, sexual harassment, feminist, civil and political rights, violence, security
Abstract:	Feminist efforts to expose, challenge, and eliminate direct, indirect, and systemic inequality in the substantive, evidentiary, and procedural laws proscribing sexual offences and in the enforcement and application of those laws have not only been consistently resisted by police, lawyers, judges, and juries, but have consistently generated backlash against those responsible for and/or supportive of such egalitarian change. Actual and imagined social, economic, political, and legal equality gains by women as a class–however unevenly distributed–have triggered a variety of types of backlash, including an escalation in actual or threatened violence against women accompanied by new equality-resistant strains of legal doctrine that effectively offset or bypass earlier reforms.
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