Are We 'Persons' Yet?: Law and Sexuality in Canada

by Kathleen A. Lahey

In 1929, the Privy Council of Canada declared that women were "persons" under the British North America Act. Seventy years later, a similar move is afoot to establish 'constitutional personhood' for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, and transgendered people. In Are We "Persons" Yet?, Kathleen A. Lahey documents the minimal extent to which human rights laws have improved the legal status of sexual minorities in Canada. She argues that, despite...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802080626
• ISBN13: 9780802080622
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher