{"id":13797,"date":"2019-09-27T15:22:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T19:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=13797"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:45:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T13:45:04","slug":"the-shannon-lectures-in-history-feminism-and-the-supreme-court-how-the-first-two-women-appointed-to-our-top-court-widened-judicial-debates","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/event\/the-shannon-lectures-in-history-feminism-and-the-supreme-court-how-the-first-two-women-appointed-to-our-top-court-widened-judicial-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shannon Lectures in History: Feminism and the Supreme Court: How the first two women appointed to our Top Court widened judicial debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p>Dr. Backhouse will discuss Bertha Wilson and Claire L\u2019Heureux-Dub\u00e9, the first two women appointed to Canada\u2019s top court (1982 and 1987 respectively) who are the subjects of her recently-published&nbsp;<em>Two Firsts<\/em>.&nbsp; Despite completely different backgrounds and personalities, the two women found their paths strewn with virtually identical blockages throughout their years in law school and&nbsp;law practice; as women judges, they were frequently mocked and repudiated.&nbsp; Throughout their careers, they met the sexism they experienced with courage and fierce tenacity, and their achievements have given them the stature of \u201cicons\u201d in Canadian women\u2019s history.&nbsp;This presentation will ask challenging questions about their perspectives on feminism and race, in an effort to reconsider what full \u201cdiversity and inclusion\u201d might encompass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Speaker Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Constance Backhouse is Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa, who teaches and researches in the areas of legal history, criminal law, human rights, feminism, and critical race theory.&nbsp; Her writing attempts to document historical efforts to dismantle discrimination on the basis of gender, race, class, ethnicity, disability, and sexual identity.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[62],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-13797","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-co-sponorship"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2019-11-08T13:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2019-11-08T15:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"ML","cu_event_meeting_room":"252","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Department of History","cu_event_email":"history@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/13797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/13797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13798,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/13797\/revisions\/13798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=13797"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=13797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}