Two Firsts: Bertha Wilson and Claire L'Heureux Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada by Constance Backhouse

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/450623 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Two Firsts: Bertha Wilson and Claire L'Heureux Dubé at the Supreme Court of Canada Series: #9 of A Feminist History Society Book Author: Constance Backhouse Narrator: Annelise Noronha Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 14 minutes Release date: August 24, 2020 Genres: Women Publisher's Summary: Bertha Wilson and Claire L'Heureux-Dubé were the first women judges on the Supreme Court of Canada. Their 1980s judicial appointments delighted feminists and shocked the legal establishment. Polar opposites in background and temperament, the two faced many identical challenges. Constance Backhouse's compelling narrative explores the sexist roadblocks both women faced in education, law practice, and in the courts. She profiles their different ways of coping, their landmark decisions for women's rights, and their less stellar records on race. To explore the lives and careers of these two path-breaking women is to venture into a world of legal sexism from a past era. The question becomes, how much of that sexism has been relegated to the bins of history, and how much continues? See https://secondstorypress.ca/teachers-guides for supplementary materials.