Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Minister of Justice: Sex equality and the attack on R. v. Butler

J Benedet - Osgoode Hall LJ, 2001 - HeinOnline
Scholars and philosophers spend much of their time discussingwhat pornography means
and whether it can be defined." This debate persists despite the fact that most men …

Men in the Place of Women, from Butler to Little Sisters-Gay Male Pornography: An Issue of Sex Discrimination by Christopher N. Kendall (Vancouver: UBC Press …

L Green - Osgoode Hall LJ, 2005 - HeinOnline
In their anti-pornography ordinance, Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon proposed
that:" Pornography shall mean the graphic sexually explicit subordination of women …

Sounding the death knell for Butler? A review of B. Cossman, S. Bell, L. Gotell & BL Ross, Bad attitude/s on trial: Pornography, feminism, and the Butler decision

J Herland - McGill Law Journal, 1998 - HeinOnline
That the Supreme Court's decision in R. v. Butler'has been widely interpreted as a feminist
victory is undoubtedly linked to the prominent role played by the Women's Legal Education …

LEAF and pornography: Litigating on equality and sexual representations

K Busby - Canadian Journal of Law and Society/La Revue …, 1994 - cambridge.org
In February 1991, the Supreme Court of Canada released R. v. Butler, a decision which
upheld Canada's Obscenity Law by recognizing a relationship between pornography and …

Troubling the Definition of Pornography: Little Sisters, a New Defining Moment in Feminists' Engagement with the Law?

L Karaian - Canadian Journal of women and the Law, 2005 - muse.jhu.edu
This article explores feminism's relationship to the legal regulation of pornography. Of
particular interest to the author is how the defining moment of the Butler decision has been …

R. v. Butler: Recognizing the Expressive Value and the Harm in Pornography

J Juson, B Lillington - Golden Gate UL Rev., 1993 - HeinOnline
American courts have traditionally regulated pornography when it falls within the United
States Supreme Court's defini-tion of obscenity.'Pornography3 falls within this definition …

[書籍しょせき][B] Bad attitude/s on trial: Pornography, feminism, and the Butler decision

B Cossman, S Bell, L Gotell, B Ross - 1997 - books.google.com
Bad Attitude/s on Trial is a critical analysis of pornography in the context of contemporary
Canada. The notion that pornography both reflects sexual domination and'victimizes' women …

Giving Women the Benefit of Equality: A Response to Wirenius

T Higgins - Fordham Urb. LJ, 1992 - HeinOnline
It is no coincidence that what Mr. Wirenius1 terms the" battle lines" over the regulation of
pornography have been redrawn over the past two decades, a period in which women have …

Disciplining the unruly: Sexual outlaws, Little Sisters and the legacy of Butler

B Cossman - U. Brit. Colum. L. Rev., 2003 - HeinOnline
The legal regulation of sex and sexuality through criminal and customs prohibitions is an
exercise of repressive state power; however, like all legal discourse, it is also a form of …

Equality issues and pornography in Canada: R. v. Butler

S Palmer - Feminist L. Stud., 1994 - HeinOnline
The issue of pornography has generated a large number of sharply divergent views. Serious
divisions have emerged within feminism over the wisdom of censoring material degrading to …