About the Author

Elizabeth Comack is a professor of sociology at the University of Manitoba. She is the author of "The Feminist Engagement with the Law," "Locating Law," "The Social Basis of Law," and "Women in Trouble. Gillian Balfour is a professor of sociology at Trent University."

Reviews

"A riveting if troubling account of . . . [how] law is not lofty, disembodied discourse, but a social process in which lawyers can make and do make choices about how they go about their practice, including deployment of strategies imbued with gendered, racialized and class-based stereotypes." --Shelley Gavigan, Osgoode Hall Law School professor, York University