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Canadian Journal of Women and the Law/Revue Femmes et Droit
Volume 28, Issue 1, April 2016
Men's Groups: Challenging Feminism / Groupes masculinistes : défier le féminisme
This special issue of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law (28.1, 2016) addresses a modern source of resistance to feminism: groups acting in the name of men’s and fathers’ rights and interests. These groups argue that men are discriminated against in relation to law (especially family law and laws on violence against women), education, and government funding. The international and interdisciplinary array of authors featured in this issue address two main questions: (1) how men’s group actions in different countries and at the international level engage with, and discursively construct, feminism and (2) lessons for the feminist movement, nationally and globally; historically and currently, from the growing legitimacy of men’s groups.
EDITORIAL / ÉDITORIAL
Men's Groups: Challenging Feminism
Boyd Susan B. and Elizabeth Sheehy
Groupes masculinistes : défier le féminisme
Susan B Boyd and Elizabeth Sheehy
ARTICLES / ARTICLES
Conceptualizing Backlash: (UK) Men's Rights Groups, Anti-Feminism, and Postfeminism
Ana Jordan
Looking through Misogyny: Indian Men's Rights Activists, Law, and Challenges for Feminism
Srimati Basu
Men's Rights or Men's Needs? Anti-Feminism in Australian Men's Health Promotion
Michael Salter
Divorced Israeli Men's Abuse of Transnational Human Rights Law
Daphna Hacker
The Chorus of Formal Equality: Feminist Custody Law Reform and Fathers' Rights Advocacy in Taiwan
Chao-ju Chen
Fathers' Rights in Swedish Family Law Reform: Taking Account of Fathers' Violence against Mothers
Monica Burman
Backlash Goes Global: Men's Groups, Patriarchal Family Policy, and the False Promise of Gender-Neutral Laws
Ruth Halperin-Kaddari and Marsha A. Freeman
Domestic Violence on #qanda: The “Man” Question in Live Twitter Discussion on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Q&A
Molly Dragiewicz and Jean Burgess
Case Commentary: R. v Walsh and the “Myth” of Marital Rape
Mohammad Vayeghan
BOOK REVIEWS / CHRONIQUES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES
The Trouble with Marriage: Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India by Srimati Basu
Susan B. Boyd
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Submission Information
The CJWL/RFD is Canada's oldest feminist legal periodical. Since it began in 1985, the journal has provided a forum in which feminist writers from diverse backgrounds, speaking from a wide range of experience, can exchange ideas and information about legal issues that affect women. We are looking to build on this tradition and remain committed to reflecting a diversity of political, social, cultural, and economic thinking, unified by a shared interest in law reform.
We invite submissions from people who are engaged in feminist analysis of socio-legal issues that reflect a range of approaches, including multidisciplinary, action-focused, theoretical, and historical, and that reflect linguistic and regional differences in Canada. We particularly encourage submissions authored by women from different backgrounds, disciplines and jurisdictions who are doing new feminist work.
The CJWL/RFD is seeking papers for publication in the following sections of the CJWL/RFD: articles, review essays, commentaries, case comments, research notes, book reviews, and notes on Canadian and International events of interest to our readers. Comments on previously published materials are also welcome. The journal is a refereed publication.
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