SOSA 3285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Implied Consent, Class Discrimination, Voir Dire

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 3285
• Professor: Dr.Kelley Anne Malinen

Document Summary

Beginning of gender, sexuality and the law: locating law: 225-293. Feminism, law, and the family : three main periods of social transformation in canadian history, characterized by a particular kind of social organization and a corresponding state formation and its accompanying particular patriarchal relations and models of the family: 1: monopoly capitalism and the welfare state welfare, transnational capitalism and the neo-liberal state egalitarian. 3. discrimination and enforced dependency embedded in the old desertion statutes and mothers" allowances legislation. Influences on judicial interpretations of the best interests principle (ex. Same- sex person leaving heterosexual marriage) and self-sufficiency principle in decisions about spousal and child support: reinforcement of the public-private distinction and contribution to the impoverishment of women and children, very low spousal and child support. Administration: the system is rigged by the public/private split. 2: complainants do not believe they will be perceived as credible or they do not.