1. Adrienne Rich, "Towards a Woman-Centered University," in Florence Howe, ed., Women and the Power to Change, McGraw-Hill Book Company: New York, 1975, p.17.
  2. On the struggle of Clara Brett Martin, the first woman admitted to the bar in the British Commonwealth (Ontario's in 1897), see Constance Backhouse, Petticoats and Prejudice, The Osgoode Society (Women's Press), Toronto: 1991, p.301-321. Part of the resistance took the form of wondering whether she was a "person." Mabel Penury French was also required to make the point that she was a person (twice) when she sought calls to the bars of New Brunswick in 1906 and British Columbia in 1912.
  3. Kathleen A. Lahey, "Celebration and Struggle: Feminism and Law," in Angela Miles and Geraldine Finn, eds., Feminism from Pressure to Politics (2d ed.). Black Rose Books: Montreal, 1989, p.100.
  4. Aleta Wallach, "A View from the Law School," in Howe, ed., (above), p.109.
  5. T. Brettel Dawson, ed. Women, Law and Social Change. Captus Press: North York, 1990.
  6. Joseph William Singer, "Re-Reading Property," New England Law Review, (1992) 26, p.713.
  7. Aleta Wallach, p.111.
  8. On life at the law schools today, see Sheila McIntyre, "Gender Bias within the Law School: 'The Memo' and its Impact," Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, (1987-88),2, p.362; Bruce Feldthusen, "The Gender Wars: 'Where the Boys are'" C.J.W.L. (1990),4, p.66; "Feminist Pedagogy: Critique and Commitment," Dawson, ed., (above), p.386.
POETRY

The Marriage

Even at 5 a.m. you knew
hardly time
for dressing, no boots for speed
in the early darkness

You could
run for miles in those far fields
blue-wet, for the soft-throated cows
moist nostrils welcoming your
smell

Their
heavy udders waiting for the gentle
pressure
of your hands, so like him,
pleading

Pressing his
greasy pencil stub against
the paper, "Dear Maude,
whatever is the matter."

Leslie Smith Dow
Ottawa, Ontario
(from The Pioneer Poems:
The Life and Times of Alice Maude)


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