Constance Backhouse
Impact in
- Law top 2%
- Legal Education and Practice Innovations
- Judicial and Constitutional Studies
- Law in Society and Culture
- Gender Studies top 10%
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
Papers in ⓘ
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- Canadian Identity and History 30
- Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies 11
- Law 16
- Legal Education and Practice Innovations 11
- Law in Society and Culture 6
- Comparative and International Law Studies 3
- Co-authors
- John McLaren (1 shared paper)Ellen M. Anderson (1 shared paper)Alison Wylie (1 shared paper)Roma Harris (1 shared paper)Kate Boyer (1 shared paper)
- Journals
- Labour / Le Travail (4 papers)Law and History Review (3 papers)American Journal of Legal History (1 paper)Histoire sociale (1 paper)Canadian Journal of Women and the Law/Revue Femmes et Droit (3 papers)
- Partner nations
- CanadaUnited States
In The Last Decade
Constance Backhouse
41 papers receiving 185 citations
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 43
- Law 61
- Gender Studies 51
- Sociology and Political Science 152
- History 31
- Health 22
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All Works
Showing the 20 most-cited of 56 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2000 | 71 | |
| 2 | The secret oppression: Sexual harassment of working women | 1978 | 27 |
| 3 | 2003 | 13 | |
| 4 | Pure Patriarchy: Nineteenth-Century Canadian Marriage | 1986 | 11 |
| 5 | Nineteenth-Century Canadian Prostitution Law: Reflection of a Discriminatory Society | 1985 | 11 |
| 6 | 'To Open the Way for Others of My Sex': Clara Brett Martin's Career as Canada's First Woman Lawyer | 1985 | 9 |
| 7 | Involuntary Motherhood: Abortion, Birth Control and the Law in Nineteenth-Century Canada | 1983 | 9 |
| 8 | 1998 | 8 | |
| 9 | The Chilly Climate for Women Judges: Reflections on the Backlash from the Ewanchuk Case | 2003 | 6 |
| 10 | Fighting sexual harassment : an advocacy handbook | 1981 | 6 |
| 11 | The Doctrine of Corroboration in Sexual Assault Trials in Early Twentieth-Century Canada and Australia | 2001 | 5 |
| 12 | Racial Segregation in Canadian Legal History: Viola Desmond's Challenge, Nova Scotia, 1946 | 1994 | 5 |
| 13 | The Changing Landscape of Canadian Legal Education | 2001 | 5 |
| 14 | 2003 | 5 | |
| 15 | 1999 | 5 | |
| 16 | 2012 | 5 | |
| 17 | "I Was Unable to Identify with Topsy" Carrie M. Best's Struggle Against Racial Segregation in Nova Scotia, 1942 | 1998 | 4 |
| 18 | The Fleck Strike: A Case Study in the Need for First Contract Arbitration | 1980 | 3 |
| 19 | The Chilly Climate for Faculty Women at Western: Postscript to the Backhouse Report | 1995 | 3 |
| 20 | 1980 | 3 |
About Constance Backhouse
Constance Backhouse is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Law, Political Science and International Relations, Gender Studies and History, having authored 56 papers that have together received 253 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Canadian Identity and History (30 papers), Legal Education and Practice Innovations (11 papers), Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies (11 papers), Law in Society and Culture (6 papers), Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies (5 papers), Labor Movements and Unions (4 papers), American Constitutional Law and Politics (4 papers) and Comparative and International Law Studies (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Law (61 citations), Gender Studies (51 citations), Sociology and Political Science (152 citations), History (31 citations) and Health (22 citations). Constance Backhouse has collaborated with scholars based in Canada and United States. Frequent co-authors include John McLaren, Ellen M. Anderson, Alison Wylie, Roma Harris and Kate Boyer. Their work appears in journals such as Labour / Le Travail, Law and History Review, American Journal of Legal History, Histoire sociale and Canadian Journal of Women and the Law/Revue Femmes et Droit.
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