Intervening in the context of white settler colonialism: West Coast LEAF, gender equality, and the Polygamy Reference

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dc.contributor.authorLenon, Suzanne
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-14T20:45:53Z
dc.date.available2018-06-14T20:45:53Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.descriptionOpen access, licensed under CC-BY-NC-NDen_US
dc.description.abstractIn November 2011, the British Columbia Supreme Court released its judgement in Reference re: s.293 of the Criminal Code of Canada, upholding the prohibition on polygamy as constitutional. The Polygamy Reference, as it is known, concluded that the pressing and substantial objective of s. 293 is the prevention of harm to women, to children, and to the institution of monogamous marriage. This paper analyzes the submissions made by the feminist legal education organization, West Coast LEAF, one of the few feminist 'voices' taken seriously by the court. The apprehension of polygamy's harms was central to the Reference case. West Coast LEAF offered one of the most nuanced interpretations of how the criminal prohibition on polygamy should be interpreted with respect to harm. Yet as this paper argues, its position conceals and is underpinned by racialized relations of power that, however unwittingly, give weight to and indeed require the racial logic of white settler state sovereignty articulated in the Polygamy References' overall narrative.en_US
dc.description.peer-reviewYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationLenon, S. (2016). Intervening in the context of white settler colonialism: West Coast LEAF, gender equality and the Polygamy Reference. Onati Socio-legal Series, 6(6), 1324-1347.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5129
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherOnati International Institute for the Sociology of Lawen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Women and Gender Studiesen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Lethbridgeen_US
dc.subjectPolygamyen_US
dc.subjectCanadaen_US
dc.subjectWest Coast LEAFen_US
dc.subjectSettler colonialismen_US
dc.subjectRaceen_US
dc.subjectSection 293en_US
dc.subjectPolygamous marriageen_US
dc.subjectMonogamous marriageen_US
dc.subjectPolygamy Referenceen_US
dc.subjectHarmen_US
dc.subjectGender equalityen_US
dc.subject.lcshPolygamy--Law and legislation--Canada
dc.subject.lcshWest Coast Women's Legal Education and Action Fund
dc.subject.lcshMarriage law--Canada
dc.titleIntervening in the context of white settler colonialism: West Coast LEAF, gender equality, and the Polygamy Referenceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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