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Book Spotlight - Women Who Woke Up the Law: Inside Cases that Changed Women's Rights in Canada

9 May 2025 9:11 AM | Anonymous



Information provided on Second Story Press' website:

Behind every “landmark case” is a woman with a story.

“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?”


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