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Canadian Journal of Women and the Law - Volume 30, No. 1, March 2018
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Meat-ing Demand: Is In Vitro Meat a Pragmatic, Problematic, or Paradoxical Solution?
Even in the midst of an ecological crisis, population and income continue to increase and so too does the global appetite for meat. One response by scientists has been to work towards making in vitro meat (IVM) a commercial reality, which would allow meat to be produced on a large scale without the husbandry and slaughter of enormous numbers of animals, as under the current industrial meat production system. Proponents of IVM technology claim that it could cut hunger, offer public health benefits, mitigate the environmental effects of conventional industrial meat production, and improve animal welfare. Read at CJWL Online>>> http://bit.ly/cjwl301a
Debunking the Myth of “Not My Bad”: Sexual Images, Consent, and Online Host Responsibilities in Canada
Andrea Slane, Ganaele Langlois
Non-consensual distribution of intimate images has been a crime in Canada since 2015. This article argues that it is time to consider how online platforms, hosts, and fora that allow users to post sexual images either directly engage in criminal acts or incur responsibility to help suppress this illegal activity. Methods for holding businesses responsible for participating in promoting or facilitating this type of wrongdoing by users should vary according to the level of involvement and risk that attaches to a particular online business model. One method applies to businesses that specifically traffic in illegal materials; for these specific “revenge porn” businesses, we should impose direct liability, as we do in other contexts. Read at CJWL Online>>> http://bit.ly/cjwl301b
Monitoring Women's Socio-Economic Equality under the ICESCR
Little attention has been paid to the monitoring tools of women's socio-economic rights (SER). Can the established monitoring tools used by the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESCR) be reformed to detect all of the ways women's SER are undermined or is it more conceptually sound to establish a new gender equality monitoring standard? This article argues for both approaches. Incorporating a gender equality framework into traditional monitoring tools enriches accountability. To detect the complex ways women experience violations of their SER, it is necessary to develop an independent evaluative tool. This article proposes that Sandra Fredman's four-dimensional model of equality be used for monitoring women's rights under the ICESCR.
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Non-Consensual Disclosure of Intimate Images as a Crime of Gender-Based Violence
Bill C-13 introduced new Criminal Code provisions prohibiting the publication of intimate images without the consent of the person depicted. Women and girls are overwhelmingly the victims of this behaviour, which is premised upon their objectification. This article analyzes this crime as a form of gender-based violence and considers, based on the legislation and the limited case law, whether, and to what extent, judges may ignore the gendered context of the crime or blame women for their own victimization. The over-emphasis on victims' privacy expectations in the legislative provisions has resulted in judges conceiving of this crime in early cases primarily as a violation of privacy rather than as a crime of sexualized gender-based violence. Read at CJWL Online>>> http://bit.ly/cjwl301d
Locating Oneself in One's Research: Learning and Engaging with Law in the Coast Salish World
Recently, there has been an increasing awareness of Indigenous legal traditions. Spurred in part by the work of Indigenous and non-Indigenous academics researching in this field of law and the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which speaks to the importance of recognizing, teaching, and operationalizing Indigenous legal traditions in many of their calls to action, such as Call to Action no. 27, 28, 42, and 50. As a result, Indigenous legal traditions are informing aspects of law school curricula and are being discussed and explored in professional legal training seminars. However, many questions remain as to the most appropriate manner in which to carry out this important work, lest it become yet another avenue of colonizing Indigenous peoples and their legal traditions.
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A Site/Sight We Cannot Bear: The Racial/Spatial Politics of Banning the Muslim Woman's Niqab
The niqab, the main subject of this article, is the garment worn by some Muslim women that conceals the face of its wearer, leaving only eyes visible. The Niqabi, as the wearer of the niqab is called, gives rise to high anxiety in the West. She generates an intense repugnance, a repugnance, I shall argue, that is paradoxically about desire. We need to ask why the niqab unsettles and who is unsettled by it and to ask these questions in a historically specific and contextualized way, keeping a sharp look out for the violence unleashed by bans. I suggest that in the West the niqab generates a deep anxiety surrounding knowing and possessing the woman who is covered. Bans on the niqab express a command to Muslim women to yield to racial and sexual superiority, and what is unbearable is her refusal to yield to the Western gaze. Read at CJWL Online>>> http://bit.ly/cjwl301f
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