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Hester Lessard

Bio: Hester Lessard is an academic researcher from University of Victoria. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supreme court & Classical liberalism. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 7 publications receiving 104 citations.

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TL;DR: Chunn, Chunn, Boyd, and Lessard as mentioned in this paper discuss the media representations of women's rights, anti-racism, and their counter-movements in the media.
Abstract: Acknowledgments 1 Feminism, Law, and Social Change: An Overview / Dorothy E. Chunn, Susan B. Boyd, and Hester Lessard Part 1: Media Representations of Feminism, Anti-Racism, and Their Counter-Movements 2 "Take It Easy Girls": Feminism, Equality, and Social Change in the Media / Dorothy E. Chunn 3 Virtual Backlash: Representations of Men's "Rights" and Feminist "Wrongs" in Cyberspace / Robert Menzies 4 Imperial Longings, Feminist Responses: Print Media and the Imagining of Nationhood after 9/11 / Sunera Thobani Part 2: Sexual Terrains: Criminal Law and the Campus 5 The Discursive Disappearance of Sexualized Violence: Feminist Law Reform, Judicial Resistance, and Neo-liberal Sexual Citizenship / Lise Gotell 6 Backlash in the Academy: The Evolution of Campus Sexual Harassment Regimes / Hester Lessard Part 3: Familial Identities and Neo-Liberal Reform 7 Feminism, Fathers' Rights, and Family Catastrophes: Parliamentary Discourses on Post-Separation Parenting, 1966-2003 / Susan B. Boyd and Claire F.L. Young 8 Child-Centred Advocacy and the Invisibility of Women in Poverty Discourse and Social Policy / Wanda Wiegers 9 Challenging Heteronormativity? Reaction and Resistance to the Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Partnerships / Claire F.L. Young and Susan B. Boyd Contributors Index

54 citations

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TL;DR: The Scrapbook project as mentioned in this paper explores the tension between the ideas of embodiment that connected our work, and the rigidities of academic convention by using various media, in substance and form, to provoke, challenge and confront its audience into dialogue, while simultaneously asking questions about the limits of our own legal imaginations.
Abstract: This article in scrapbook form represents the endeavour of the eight authors to document a recent, collective, academic journey. The project was one embarked upon as a means to explore tensions between the ideas of embodiment that connected our work, and the rigidities of academic convention. Using various media, this article strives, in substance and form, to provoke, challenge and confront its audience into dialogue, while simultaneously asking questions about the limits of our own legal imaginations.

17 citations

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TL;DR: The Scrapbook project as discussed by the authors explores the tension between the ideas of embodiment that connected our work, and the rigidities of academic convention by using various media, in substance and form, to provoke, challenge and confront its audience into dialogue, while simultaneously asking questions about the limits of our own legal imaginations.
Abstract: This article in scrapbook form represents the endeavour of the eight authors to document a recent, collective, academic journey. The project was one embarked upon as a means to explore tensions between the ideas of embodiment that connected our work, and the rigidities of academic convention. Using various media, this article strives, in substance and form, to provoke, challenge and confront its audience into dialogue, while simultaneously asking questions about the limits of our own legal imaginations.

12 citations

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01 Jan 2011
TL;DR: In this paper, Nandorfy et al. discuss the history of contact and arrival narratives in Canada and the role of the narrative in Canadian Aboriginal rights law, and present counter-Narrative narratives of arrival and return.
Abstract: Part 1: Introduction 1 Introduction / Hester Lessard, Rebecca Johnson, and Jeremy Webber Part 2: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in the Canadian Political Space 2 Canadian Sovereignty and Universal History / Michael Asch 3 Historicizing Narratives of Arrival: The Other Indian Other / Audrey Macklin 4 The Conceit of Sovereignty: Toward Post-Colonial Technique / Brenna Bhandar Part 3: Narratives and Narrative Form 5 Show Me Yours / Richard Van Camp 6 Horseflies, Haireaters, and Bulldogs: In Conversation with Richard Van Camp / Blanca Schorcht 7 Counter-Narratives of Arrival and Return: Testing the Interstices of Resistance / Sneja Gunew 8 Common Ground around the Tower of Babel / J. Edward Chamberlin Part 4: Contact and Its Narratives 9 Juxtaposing Contact Stories in Canada / Anne Godlewska 10 Native Women, the Body, Land, and Narratives of Contact and Arrival / Kim Anderson 11 The Batman Legend: Remembering and Forgetting the History of Possession and Dispossession / Bain Attwood 12 Layered Narratives in Site-Specific "Wild" Places / Jacinta Ruru Part 5: Arrival and Its Narratives 13 Narratives of Origins and the Emergence of the European Union / Patricia Tuitt 14 "Robbed of a Different Life": Alternative Histories, Interrupted Futures / Susan Bibler Coutin Part 6: Institutional Implications: How Would We Do Things Differently If We Took Narrative Seriously? 15 Toward a Shared Narrative of Reconciliation: Developments in Canadian Aboriginal Rights Law / S. Ronald Stevenson 16 Hoquotist: Reorienting through Storied Practice / Johnny Mack 17 Proof and Narrative: "Reproducing the Facts" in Refugee Claims / Donald Galloway Part 7: Theoretical Implications: Where Do We Go from Here? 18 Differentiating Liberating Stories from Oppressive Narratives: Memory, Land, and Justice / Martha Nandorfy Contributors / Index

11 citations

01 Jan 2012
TL;DR: A survey of the outcomes of these cases and the "dollars" at stake reveals a "follow the money" pattern as discussed by the authors, indicating that a minimal budgetary impact is a necessary, albeit not sufficient, condition for a successful social benefit challenge.
Abstract: The social benefit challenges under the Charter’s equality guarantee offer insight into the Supreme Court of Canada’s approach to claims for distributive justice. In most of these cases, the financial costs to government of rights recognition play a role in the analysis. A survey of the outcomes of these cases and the “dollars” at stake reveals a “follow the money” pattern. In all cases in which the claim that the government regime creates an inequality was successful, the cost to the public purse of finding in favour of the equality claimant was characterized by the Court as low or inexpensive. All those cases in which the public cost of recognition was regarded as significantly high have failed, although some inexpensive claims have also failed. The correlation suggests that a minimal budgetary impact is a necessary, albeit not sufficient, condition for a successful social benefit challenge. Conversely, the correlation indicates that a significant budgetary impact poses a serious, if not insurmountable, barrier to success. The social benefit equality cases have also been the occasion of the Court’s elaboration of a doctrinal framework for factoring budgetary impacts into the adjudication of rights claims under the Charter. Much of the discussion in this regard has been on the question of at what stage of Charter analysis — the rights analysis, the section 1 analysis (and its subparts), and/or the remedy stage — the public cost of rights recognition should or should not be weighed against other factors. From an initial position of high principle — that governmental concerns about saving time and money should not trump rights — the jurisprudence has, over the past 30 years, reached a point at which the financial impact on government may play a significant role at all three stages of analysis, often curtailing a meaningful exploration of both the Charter values and the non-monetary regulatory concerns at stake. If the Charter equality guarantee is truly to be given substantive content, then judges, lawyers and legal scholars need to work out a more coherent framework for taking account of budgetary impacts. An overview is provided of the sorts of considerations that need to be integrated into such a framework.

7 citations


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01 Jan 1992
TL;DR: The body politics of Julia Kristeva and the Body Politics of JuliaKristeva as discussed by the authors are discussed in detail in Section 5.1.1 and Section 6.2.1.
Abstract: Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics

1,125 citations

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335 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, le mythe de la victime ideale continues a miner la credibilite de ces femmes who sont percues comme s'ecartant trop des notions stereotypees des victimes "authentiques" and trop aussi des presomptions concernant les reactions previsibles and "raisonnables" des victime.
Abstract: L'archetype de la victime ideale d'une agression sexuelle, qui s'est elargi quelque peu au cours des ans en reaction a une prise de conscience sociale et juridique de la violence faite aux femmes, fonctionne toujours neanmoins pour discrediter le recit que font de nombreuses plaignantes de leurs experiences d'agressions sexuelles. Dans cette mesure, le mythe de la « victime ideale » continue a miner la credibilite de ces femmes qui sont percues comme s'ecartant trop des notions stereotypees des victimes « authentiques » et trop aussi des presomptions concernant les reactions previsibles et « raisonnables » des victimes. Les evaluations de la credibilite, qui sont absolument cruciales dans les proces pour agressions sexuelles, demeurent profondement imbues des mythes et des stereotypes touchant les victimes « ideales », « reelles » ou « vraies » d'agressions sexuelles. En depit des reformes progressistes du droit canadien concernant le consentement en matiere d'agressions sexuelles, il n'en demeure pas moi...

153 citations

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TL;DR: The authors examined how men negotiate the competing discourses of victimization, hegemonic masculinity, and stereotypes about domestic violence when filing for a domestic violence protection order against a woman partner.
Abstract: Previous research analyzing masculinity and domestic violence has focused on men’s accounts of the violence they have committed; relatively little research has focused on men’s accounts of victimization. This article critically examines how men negotiate the competing discourses of victimization, hegemonic masculinity, and stereotypes about domestic violence when filing for a domestic violence protection order against a woman partner. Three themes related to gender and victimization emerged from the men’s narratives. First, the men’s descriptions of the violence they had experienced focused on their power and control over their intimate partner. Second, the men described their active resistance to the abuse but were careful to note that their actions were not “abusive” and that they were not the “abusers.” Finally, although most of the men described both verbal and physical abuse, most did not express a fear of their partner. I discuss the results of this analysis in the context of the recent increase in ...

75 citations