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“Welfare Policy – A Critical Site of Struggle for Women’s Safety” with Pat Evans (forthcoming Canadian Woman Studies)“The Complicity of the Public State in the Intimate Abuse of Immigrant Women", in Vijay Agnew (ed.), Migrant Women's Quest for Social Justice (under review, University of Toronto Press)"The Construction of "Welfare Fraud" and the Wielding of the State's Iron Fist", in Elizabeth Comack (ed.) Locating Law: Race, Class and Gender Connections (2nd ed). (Halifax: Fernwood Press) (forthcoming)“Welfare Fraudsters and Tax Evaders: The State’s Selective Invocation of Criminality”, in Bernard Schissel and Carolyn Brooks, Marginality and Condemnation, An Introduction to Critical Criminology 2^nd ed. (Halifax: Fernwoord Press) (forthcoming)“Welfare Reform and the Re-making of the Model Citizen”, in S.Boyd, G.Brodsky, S.Day & M.Young (eds.), Poverty: Rights, Governance & Citizenship (Vancouver: U.B.C. Press) (forthcoming)“The Shrinking of the Public and Private Spaces of the Poor”, in J.Hermer & J.Mosher (eds.) Disorderly People: Law and the Politics of Exclusion in Ontario (Halifax: Fernwood Press, 2002) 41-53“Managing the Disentitlement of Women: Glorified Markets, the Idealized Family, and the Undeserving Other”, in S.Neysmith (ed.), Restructuring Caring Labour (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2000) Chapter 2, 30-51“Caught in Tangled Webs of Care: Women Abused in Intimate Relationships”, in Carol T. Baines et al (eds.), Women's Caring: Feminist Perspectives in Social Welfare (2^nd ed.) (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1998) chapter 7, 139-159“(Re)fashioning Medicine's Response to Wife Abuse”, with Dr. Marilynne Bell, in Feminist Health Care Research Network, The Politics of Women's Health: Exploring Agency and Autonomy (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998) chapter 9, 205-233 “Ethical and Legal Issues in Research Involving Drug-Dependent Pregnant Women” in G.Koren (ed.) Ethics in Pediatric Research (Florida: Krieger Publishing Co., 1993) 183-96

Book Chapters

“Legal Education: Nemesis or Ally of Social Movements” (1997), 35 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 613-635“Unkept Promises: Experiences of Immigrant Women with the Neo-Criminalization of Wife Abuse” with Professor Dianne Martin (1995), 8 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 3-44“Challenging Limitation Periods: Civil Claims by Adult Survivors of Incest” (1994), 14 University of Toronto Law Journal 169-222“The Harms of Dichotomy: Access to Welfare Benefits as a Case on Point” (1991), 9 Canadian Journal of Family Law 97-131“20th Century Music: The Impoverishment in Copyright Law of a Strategy of Forms” (1989), 5 Intellectual Property Journal 51-70

Journal Articles

“Disclosure of Abused Women's Therapeutic Records in Criminal Justice Proceedings”, Ontario Association of Social Workers Newsmagazine, Vol. 23, no.2, Summer 1996, p 12“The Role of the Lawyer on Research Ethics Boards” (1992), 2(2) Calyx, Hospital for Sick Children

Shorter Articles

“Battered Women and Legal Rights in the Canadian Context” (1992), Canadian African Newcomers Aid Centre, workshop proceedings

Conference Papers

“Poverty Law -- A Case Study” in the Report of the Ontario Legal Aid Review, A Blueprint for Publicly Funded Legal Services, volume 3 (Toronto: Queen's Printer, 1997) 914-967“Barriers to Access to Civil Justice for Disadvantaged Groups” with Ian Morrison in Ontario Law Reform Commission, Rethinking Civil Justice: Research Studies for the Civil Justice Review (Toronto: Ontario Law Reform Commission, 1996) 637-703

Monographs & Reports

J.Hermer & J. Mosher (eds.) Disorderly People: Law and the Politics of Exclusion in Ontario (Halifax: Fernwood Press, 2002)G.D.Watson, W.A.Bogart, A.C.Hutchinson, J.E.Mosher, T.Pinos, J.Walker (eds.) The Civil Litigation Process: Cases and Materials (5^th ed.), (Toronto: Emond Montgomery Press, 1999)G.D. Watson, W.A. Bogart, A.C. Hutchinson, J.E. Mosher, K. Roach (eds.) Civil Litigation: cases and materialsM/i> (4^th ed.) (Toronto: Emond Montgomery Press, 1991) 1056 pp

Books Edited

Full Text (PDF)Welfare Fraud: The Constitution of Social Assistance as Crime March 2005Full Text (PDF)Walking on Eggshells: Abused Women's Experiences of Ontario's Welfare System, April 2004 EnglishFull Text (PDF)Une marche en terrain glissant, avril 2004Book review of Raphael, Jody, Saving Bernice: Battered Women, Welfare and Poverty in (2003), 14 (2) Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 455-461A review of Brandwein, Ruth A. (ed.), Battered women, Children and Welfare Reform: The Ties That Bind (2000), 9(1) Canadian Journal of Urban Research 110-113A Curriculum Package on Wife Abuse for Law Faculties, published in-house pursuant to a contract with the Ministry of Colleges and Universities, December, 1992

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