Shelley A. M. Gavigan

York University - Osgoode Hall Law School

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4700 Keele Street

Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3

Canada

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1.

Women and Abortion in Canada: What's Law Got to Do with It?

FEMINISM AND POLITICAL ECONOMY: WOMEN'S WORK, WOMEN's STRUGGLES, Heather Jon Maroney, Meg Luxton, eds., pp. 263-284, Toronto: Methuen, 1987
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 21 Dec 2009
Shelley A. M. Gavigan
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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abortion, law, Canada, sociology of law, gender

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Petit Treason in Eighteenth-Century England: Women's Inequality Before the Law

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Petit Treason in Eighteenth-Century England: Women's Inequality Before the Law

Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Vol. 3, p. 335, 1989
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 21 Dec 2009
Shelley A. M. Gavigan
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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criminal law, women, law, domestic murder, petit treason, legal history

Petit Treason in Eighteenth Century England: Women's Inequality before the Law

Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Vol. 3(2), 1989, Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16/2017
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 10 Nov 2016
Shelley A. M. Gavigan
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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Women, Law and Patriarchal Relations: Perspectives within the Sociology of Law

THE SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF LAW, Neil Boyd, ed., pp. 101-124, Scarborough: Prentice-Hall, 1986
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 21 Dec 2009
Shelley A. M. Gavigan
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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women, law, patriarchal relations, sociology of law

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The Criminal Sanction as it Relates to Human Reproduction: The Genesis of the Statutory Prohibition of Abortion

Journal of Legal History, Vol. 5, p. 20, 1984
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 16 Apr 2010
Shelley A. M. Gavigan
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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abortion, legal history, Lord Ellenborough's Act, criminal law

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Welfare Law, Welfare Fraud and the Moral Regulation of the 'Never Deserving' Poor

Social & Legal Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2, p. 219, 2004
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 21 Dec 2009
Dorothy E. Chunn and Shelley A. M. Gavigan
Simon Fraser University (SFU) and York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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From Mothers’ Allowance to Mothers Need Not Apply: Canadian Welfare Law as Liberal and Neo-Liberal Reforms

Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Vol. 45, No. 4, p. 733, 2007
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 21 Dec 2009
Shelley A. M. Gavigan and Dorothy E. Chunn
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School and Simon Fraser University (SFU)
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welfare law, sole mothers, poverty, neo-liberalism, law reform

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Equal Families, Equal Parents, Equal Spouses, Equal Marriage: The Case of the Missing Patriarch

Supreme Court Law Review, Vol. 33, No. 2d, p. 317, 2006
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 22 Dec 2009
Shelley A. M. Gavigan
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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patriarchal relations, equal famililies, spouses, same sex marriage, family law

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Law, Gender and Ideology

LEGAL THEORY MEETS LEGAL PRACTICE, Anne F. Bayefsky, ed., pp. 283-295, Edmonton: Academic Publishing, 1988
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 21 Dec 2009
Shelley A. M. Gavigan
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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sociology of law, ideology, gender

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On Bringinging on the Menses: The Criminal Liability of Women and the Therapeutic Exception in Canadian Abortion Law

Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Vol. 1, p. 279, 1986
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 21 Dec 2009 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2010
Shelley A. M. Gavigan
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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Social Control: Analytical Tool or Analytical Quagmire?

Contemporary Crises, Vol. 12, pp. 107-124, 1988
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 22 Dec 2009
Dorothy E. Chunn and Shelley A. M. Gavigan
Simon Fraser University (SFU) and York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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social control, women, law

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A Parent(ly) Knot: Can Heather Have Two Mommies?

LEGAL INVERSIONS: LESBIANS, GAY MEN AND THE POLITICS OF THE LAW, Didi Herman and Carl Stychin, eds., pp. 102-117, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995 , HAVING AND RAISING CHILDREN: UNCONVENTIONAL FAMILIES, HARD CHOICES AND THE SOCIAL GOOD, Julia J. Barkowiak and Uma Narajan, eds., 1999
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 22 Dec 2009
Shelley A. M. Gavigan
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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lesbian parents, law, children

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Legal Forms, Family Forms, Gender Norms: What is a Spouse?

Canadian Journal Law & Society, Vol. 14, p. 127, 1999
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 21 Dec 2009
Shelley A. M. Gavigan
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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legal form, welfare law, spouse, same sex relationships

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Paradise Lost, Paradox Revisited: The Implications of Familial Ideology for Feminist, Lesbian, and Gay Engagement to Law

Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Vol. 31, No. 3, p. 589, 1993
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 21 Dec 2009
Shelley A. M. Gavigan
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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same sex relationship, women, welfare law, spouse

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On 'Bringing on the Menses': The Criminal Liability of Women and the Therapeutic Exception in Canadian Abortion Law

Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, Vol.1(2), 1986, Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15/2017
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 15 Mar 2017
Shelley A. M. Gavigan
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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'Prisoner Never Gave Me Anything for What He Done': Aboriginal Voices in the Criminal Court

Socio-Legal Review, Vol. 3, p. 71, 2007
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 22 Dec 2009
Shelley A. M. Gavigan
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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Aboriginal peoples, criminal law, North-West Territories, Aboriginal informants, Aboriginal witnesses

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'Prisoner Never Gave Me Anything for What He Done:' Aboriginal Voices in the Criminal Court

Socio-Legal Review, Vol. 3, 2007, Osgoode Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20/2017
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 10 Nov 2016
Shelley A. M. Gavigan
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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Twenty-Five Years of Dynamic Tension: The Parkdale Community Legal Services Experience

Osgoode Hall Law Journal Vol. 35, No.3, 1997
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 30 May 2012 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2013
Shelley A. M. Gavigan
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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parkdale, community, legal, services, anniversary, poverty, law reform, education, osgoode

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Twenty-Five Years of Dynamic Tension: The Parkdale Community Legal Services Eexperience

Osgoode Hall Law Journal, Vol. 35, No. 3, p. 443, 1997
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 08 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2013
Shelley A. M. Gavigan
York University - Osgoode Hall Law School
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parkdale, community, legal services, experience