Deck 13: Law

Question 1

In what year was the question of whether or not women were legally "persons" debated in the Supreme Court of Canada?

A) 1867
B) 1912
C) 1929
D) 1960

Answer 1

1929

Question 2

What is the area of law in which gender stereotypes have been particularly prevalent, as discussed in your textbook?

A) sexual assault
B) sexual orientation
C) child abuse
D) separation

Answer 2

sexual assault

Question 3

The sexual assault case in Alberta of R. v. Ewanchuck is a striking example of how the law often _____________ women who come before it with complaints of sexual assault.

A) vindicates
B) criminalizes
C) re-victimizes
D) supports

Answer 3

re-victimizes

Question 4

The following phrase is used by Carol Smart (1989) to characterize the sense in which the law is powerful through its organization of knowledge and exclusion of other voices is: "law is at the ______ of discourses".

A) apex
B) end
C) beginning
D) foundation

Question 5

An important point raised by the text is that law is neither objective nor :

A) sincere
B) neutral
C) subjective
D) biased

Question 6

What does legal language generally do with/to the voices and experiences of marginalized persons?

A) strives to include
B) celebrates
C) is highly sensitive towards
D) excludes and silences

Question 7

The legal recognition of ____________ can be read as an example of the law's acknowledgment that women's lived experiences and social realities are often very different from men's.

A) attention deficit disorder
B) battered woman syndrome
C) sexual assault trauma
D) fetal alcohol syndrome

Question 8

The significance of Bill C-38, which received royal assent on July 20, 2005, was that it:

A) allowed same-sex couples to marry
B) allowed same-sex couple to marry, but not to divorce
C) allowed same-sex couples to adopt children
D) forbade employers from not hiring a person because of her/his sexual orientation

Question 9

The following theorist argues that women and men think differently about justice.

A) Rebecca Johnson
B) Pamela Harris
C) Dorothy Smith
D) Carol Gilligan

Question 10

In law school today, what proportion of women make up admissions?

A) half
B) a quarter
C) none
D) all

Question 11

In her research on women and men in the legal profession, Joan Brockman (2001) found that at the outset of their legal careers, women earn ______________, eventually, ____________.

A) less than men, they earn equal pay
B) more than men, they earn less pay
C) more than men, they earn equal pay
D) the same as men, they earn less than man

Question 12

Shifts in law ________ shift in gender relations.

A) will invariably bring
B) do not necessarily result in
C) most likely bring
D) can in no sense produce any relevant

Question 13

It is suggested in Rebecca Johnson's guest essay that at its core, law is enmeshed in a world of ___________.

A) right and wrong
B) ambiguity
C) stories
D) moral lessons

Question 14

In her guest essay, Rebecca Johnson recounts a story about being asked to leave an English pub with her newborn baby due to a law that forbids minors from being in licensed pubs. What kind of effects does the seemingly neutral exclusion of children produce, according to Johnson?

A) gendered
B) ablest
C) psychological
D) moral

Question 15

Karkauer and Chen's (2003) research on law school participation finds high drop out rates amongst women and other minority. What do the authors suggest exists in law school, as a way to account for this?

A) glass ceiling
B) glass elevator
C) chilly climate
D) revolving door

Question 16

What does judge Maryka Omatsu (2005) believe is (or can be) the result of increasing the numbers of women judges in the justice system?

A) it both does and does not make a difference
B) it does not make a difference
C) it should not make a difference
D) it does but should not make a difference

Question 17

Maryka Omatsu (2005), the first and so far, only East Asian Canadian woman judge, points out that the backlash to diversity on the bench _________________.

A) might make the problem of legal bias worse than it was in the first place
B) risks ironically reproducing the homogeneity that new appointments were meant to correct
C) shows how one-sided the focus on diversification has been
D) is unfortunate but raises legitimate worries

Question 18

Most generally, what does the social institution of law do with the status quo?

A) routinely challenges
B) often subverts
C) always justifies
D) generally favors

Question 19

What was the "White Woman's Labour Law"?

Question 20

What does Smart (1989) mean when she characterizes law as at the apex of discourses?

Question 21

What are some of the factors that exacerbate the vulnerability of immigrant women, as discussed in the research of Miedema and Waccholz?

Question 22

How do women and men think about justice, according to the work of Gilligan (1982)?

Question 23

It is suggested in Johnson's guest essay that at its core, law is enmeshed in a world of stories. What does she mean by this?

Question 24

Develop an essay in which you discuss the "sameness/difference" dilemma of law, as it pertains to a particular gender-based example (such as post-partum depression or premenstrual syndrome)

Question 25

Drawing upon a particular case example (to be worked out with your professor), discuss the advantages and disadvantages of an intersectional approach to the study of law.

Question 26

Write a research essay in which you explore how the language of sexual assault has changed in the Canadian legal context over the past 25 years.