YEAR/ANNÉE 1994

Arnup, Katherine.

“Finding Fathers: Artificial Insemination, Lesbians, and the Law.”

Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 7(1) (1994): 97-115.

“Examines the history of artificial insemination and the legal

issues that surround its use….The author argues for an expanded

notion of reproductive choice that incorporates the right of access

to artificial insemination for lesbians and single mothers” –NISC

Gay & Lesbian Abstracts.

Boyd, Susan B.

“Expanding the ‘Family’ in Family Law: Recent Proposals on Same Sex

Relationships.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 7(2) (1994):

545-563.

Relevant statute: Ontario. Family Law Act.

Boyd, Susan B.

“(Re)Placing the State: Family, Law and Oppression.”

Canadian Journal of Law and Society 9(1) (Spring 1994): 39-73.

“An examination of recent Canadian court rulings on support &

property law & same-sex relationships, focusing on the dynamic

functions of the state in these traditional & nontraditional areas” –

from Sociological Abstracts. Broader than scope of this bibliography.

Brodsky, Gwen.

“Out of the Closet and into a Wedding Dress?: Struggles for Lesbian and Gay

Legal Equality.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 7 (1994): 523-535.

Busby, Karen.

“LEAF [(Women’s) Legal Education and Action Fund] and Pornography:

Litigating on Equality and Sexual Representations.” Canadian Journal

of Law and Society 9 (Spring 1994): 165-192.

Broader than scope of bibliography, but concerns gay men, lesbians,

censorship, the Criminal Code, and the Canadian Charter of Rights

and Freedoms.

Caron, Michèle.

“Variations sur le thème de l’invisibilisation.” Revue juridique La femme et

le droit = Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 7(2) (1994): 271-285.

Lesbians: law; identity; discrimination.

Casey, Shelley.

“Homosexual Parents & Canadian Child Custody Law.” Family and

Conciliation Courts Review [Los Angeles] 32(3) (1994): 379-396.

Chotalia, Shirish.

“The Vriend Decision: A Case Study in Constitutional Remedies in the

Human Rights Context.” Alberta Law Review 32 (Aug. 1994): 825-834.

Relevant statutes: Alberta. Individual’s Rights Protection Act;

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, s. 15(1).

Cossman, Brenda.

“Family Inside/Out.” University of Toronto Law Journal 44 (Winter 1994): 1-39.

Title also published: Toronto: Faculty of Law, University of Toronto,

1992 (60 p.).

Gay/lesbian couples, etc.

D’Aoust, Vicky.

“Competency, Autonomy, and Choice: On Being a Lesbian and Having

Disabilities.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 7 (1994): 564-578.

Eaton, Mary.

“Lesbians, Gays and the Struggle for Equality Rights: Reversing the Progressive

Hypothesis.” Dalhousie Law Journal 17 (Spring 1994): 130-186.

Eaton, Mary.

“Patently Confused: Complex Inequality and Canada v. Mossop.”

Review of Constitutional Studies 1 (1994): 203-245.

Relevant statutes: Canadian Human Rights Act; Canadian

Charter of Rights and Freedoms, s. 15.

Fadel, Alec.

“Homosexual Offenses in Ottawa 1950 to 1967: The Medicalization of

the Legal Process.” MA thesis, Concordia University, 1994.

(116 p.)

“Since 1892 the Criminal Code of Canada has outlawed homosexual

sex by defining it as buggery and gross indecency and prescribing

strict penalties. This thesis will analyze how these legal codes were

created and how they were used by Ottawa courts between 1950 and

1967. This thesis will also examine the rise of a medical model of

homosexuality in Canada, by tracing the medical writings on the topic”

and discuss the influence of the medical model on the courts –

abstract from Canadian Research Index.

Freeman, Jody.

“Defining Family in the Mossop v. DSS: The Challenge of Anti-Essentialism

and Interactive Discrimination for Human Rights Legislation.”

University of Toronto Law Journal 44 (Winter 1994): 41-96.

Herman, Didi.

“The Good, the Bad, and the Smugly: Perspectives on the Canadian Charter

of Rights and Freedoms.” Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 14 (Winter 1994):

589-604.

Discussion of the Charter particularly in relation to the lesbian and gay

rights movement.

Herman, Didi.

“A Jurisprudence of One’s Own? Ruthann Robson’s Lesbian Legal Theory.”

Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 7(2) (1994): 509-522.

Herman, Didi.

Rights of Passage: Struggles for Lesbian and Gay Legal Equality.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, c1994.

(198 p.; ISBN 0802004415; 0802072313)

Reviews: Mary Eaton, Queen’s Law Journal 20 (Spring 1995): 628-631;

Susan B. Boyd, University of British Columbia Law Review 28

(1994): 399-402; Shane Phelan, American Political Science

Review 90(4) (1996): 938-939; David M. Rayside, Canadian

Review of Sociology and Anthropology 32(1) (1995): 123-125;

David Rayside, Canadian Journal of Political Science 28(1) (1995):

140-141; Don King, Saskatchewan Law Review 59(1) (1995):

235-236; Canadian Journal of Women & the Law 7(2)

(1994): 523-535; Michael Farago, University of Toronto Faculty

of Law Review 53 (Spring 1995): 376-383.

Jenish, D’Arcy.

“Round Two: Gays Vow to Fight in Court after Ontario’s Same-Sex Bill Fails.”

Maclean’s [Toronto ed.], June 20, 1994, p. 32 (619 words).

Johnson, Lori.

“The Legal Status of Post-Operative Transsexuals.” Health Law Journal 2

(1994): 159-181.

Keller, Jeffrey.

“On Becoming a Fag.” Saskatchewan Law Review 58 (1994): 191-202.

Gays; rape; sex discrimination.

Majury, Diana.

“Refashioning the Unfashionable: Claiming Lesbian Identities in the Legal

Context.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 7(2) (1994): 286-317.

McAllister, Debra M.

“Egan: A Crucible for Human Rights.” National Journal of Constitutional Law 5

(Nov. 1994): 95-108.

Relevant statute: Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, s. 15.

McEvoy, J. P.

“The Charter and Spousal Benefits: The Case of the Same-Sex Spouse.”

Review of Constitutional Studies 2 (1994): 39-75.

Relevant statute: Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, s. 15.

McSweeney, Lucy Kingen.

“Sexual Orientation Discrimination and Employee Benefit Plans: A Comment

on Clinton v. Ontario Blue Cross.” Canadian Journal of Women and the

Law 7 (Summer-Fall 1994): 583-592.

Relevant statute: Ontario. Human Rights Code, ss. 5(1) and 25(1)-(2).

Millbank, Jenni.

“What Do Lesbians Do?: Motherhood Ideology, Lesbian Mothers and Family

Law.” LL.M. thesis, University of British Columbia, 1994.

Nemeth, Mary.

“The Fight to Change the Law is Not Over.” Maclean’s, May 16, 1994,

p. 43 (440 words).

About the personal and legal struggle of Delwin Vriend, Edmonton

teacher fired because he was gay.

Ontario Human Rights Commission.

Ontario Blue Cross and Ontario Human Rights Commission and [Elizabeth]

Clinton, May 3, 1994. Toronto, Ont.: The Commission, 1994.

(5 p.)

Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 17182791.

SEE ALSO entry for YEAR 1993, below.

Page, S. John, and Springer, Sari L.

Sexual Orientation and the Law. Toronto: Department of Continuing Legal

Education, Law Society of Upper Canada, 1994.

(1 v., various pagings; ISBN 0887598943)

“These materials were planned and organized…for the program held

in Toronto on…June 21, 1994” – University of Toronto catalogue note.

Pearlman, Lynne.

“Theorizing Lesbian Oppression and the Politics of Outness in the Case of

Waterman v. National Life Assurance: A Beginning in Lesbian Human

Rights/Equality Jurisprudence.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 7

(1994): 454-508.

Petersen, Cynthia.

“Living Dangerously: Speaking Lesbian, Teaching Law.” Canadian Journal

of Women and the Law 7(2) (1994): 318-348.

Lesbian law teachers.

Ristock, Janice L.

“‘And Justice for All?’: The Social Context of Legal Responses to Abuse

in Lesbian Relationships.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 7(2)

(1994): 415-430.

Robinson, Ann.

“Lesbiennes, mariage et famille: De l’illégalité à l’égalité par la Commission des

droits de la personne du Québec.” Canadian Journal of Women and the

Law 7(2) (1994): 393-414.

Sanders, Douglas.

“Constructing Lesbian and Gay Rights.” Canadian Journal of Law and Society 9

(Fall 1994): 99-143.

Relevant statute: Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, s. 15.

Scales, Ann.

“Avoiding Constitutional Depression: Bad Attitudes and the Fate of Butler.”

Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 7(2) (1994): 349-392.

Obscenity; pornography; lesbians; Criminal Code; etc.

Smart, Carol.

“Law, Feminism and Sexuality: From Essence to Ethics?” Canadian

Journal of Law and Society 9 (Spring 1994): 15-38.

Sullivan, Steve.

“Defining Sexual Orientation: A Paper.” Prepared by Victims of Violence;

prepared by Steve Sullivan. Ottawa: The Centre, 1994.

(18 p.)

Ref.: AMICUS catalogue record no. 15240426, which notes

“November 24, 1994” and “Presented to the Standing Committee on

Justice and Legal Affairs, November 29, 1994.”

Université Laval (Québec, Québec). Groupe de recherche multidisciplinaire

féministe.

Lesbiennes, mariage et famille: mémoire présenté à la Commission des

droits de la personne du Québec dans le cadre de sa consultation publique

sur la discrimination et la violence envers les gais et les lesbiennes au

Québec. Québec: La Groupe, 1994.

(38 p.; ISBN 2893640729)

Wintemute, Robert.

“Sexual Orientation Discrimination as Sex Discrimination: Same-Sex Couples

and the Charter in Mossop, Egan and Layland.” McGill Law Journal 39

(June 1994): 429-478.

Young, Claire F. L.

“Taxing Times for Lesbians and Gay Men: Equality at What Cost?”

Dalhousie Law Journal 17 (Fall 1994): 534-559.

Income tax; gays/lesbians/gay couples.

Published also: Toronto: Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 1994.

(27 p.)