Are We 'Persons' Yet

Law and Sexuality in Canada

Bibliographic Data

ID7530906
AuthorsKathleen A Lahey (corresponding author)
Year1999
Publication date1999-08-21
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueAre We 'Persons' Yet? (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.3138/9781442670952
OpenAlexW578573687
ISBN9781442670952
Open LibraryOL35756982M
LanguageEN
Citations received16

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 the significant legal progress made with the adoption of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the traditional legal definition of .persons. continues to limit the legal, social, economic, and political freedom of queer people. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Lahey presents a historical analysis of litigation relating to sexuality and of the most recent constitutional decisions on sexuality in Canada and the United States. Further discussion concerns immigration law, inheritance law, and same-sex marriage, as well as the widespread exclusion of queers from government census and other statistical surveys. Are We .Persons. Yet? provides an excellent model for the analysis of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, sexuality, and marital status and a valuable reference for academics and activists alike

Homosexuality · Human sexuality · Lesbian · Personhood · Political science · Politics · Queer · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Psychology · canada · law and legislation · Legal status, laws · Legal status, laws, etc · Sex and law · Sex discrimination · Sexual minorities · Women

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