In Memoriam (1942 - 2022)

Dorothy E. Chunn, Professor Emeritus (Sociology), received her BA in English and History from the University of British Columbia and her MA and PhD in Sociology from the University of Toronto. Her research and publications were concentrated primarily in the area of feminist socio-legal studies. Research projects focused on feminism, law, and social change in Canada since the 1960s; poor women鈥檚 experiences of health and housing; and the reform of Canadian child custody law.

PhD (Sociology), University of Toronto
MA (Sociology), University of Toronto
BA (English and History), University of British Columbia

Feminism, law and social change; politics of family; historical sociology of crime, madness and social welfare; media representations of women/feminism; "policing" violence against women.

Books

•  Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2014 (co-authors: Wendy Chan and Dorothy Chun)
•  Vancouver: UBC Press, Fall 2007 (co-editors: Susan B. Boyd, Dorothy Chunn & Hester Lessard)
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  London: Glasshouse/Cavendish, 2005 (co-editors: Wendy Chan, Dorothy Chunn & Robert Menzies)
• Contesting Canadian Citizenship: Historical Readings. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2002 (co-editors: Robert. Adamoski, Dorothy Chunn & Robert Menzies)
• , Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2002 (co-editors: John P.S. McLaren, Robert Menzies & Dorothy Chunn)

Book Chapters

• 2006  鈥淪o what does this all have to do with criminology? Surviving the Restructuring of the Discipline in the Twenty-First Century鈥� Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice 48(5): 663-680. Special Issue on Critical Socio-Legal Studies in Canada (co-author Robert Menzies).
• 2006  鈥淐harlotte鈥檚 Story Revisited: The Criminal and Psychiatric Control of Women.鈥� In G. Balfour and E. Comack, eds., Criminalizing Women: Gender and (In)Justice in Neo-Liberal Times, c.6. Halifax: Fernwood, (co-author Robert Menzies).
• 2004  鈥淲elfare Law, Welfare Fraud, and the Moral Regulation of the 鈥楴ever Deserving Poor鈥欌�� Social & Legal Studies 13(2): 219-243 (co-author S.A.M. Gavigan).
  
• 2004  鈥溾�楶oliticizing the Personal鈥�: Feminism, Law, and Public Policy.鈥� In N. Mandell and A. Duffy, eds. Canadian Families: Diversity, Conflict and Change, pp.276-310. 3d ed. Toronto: Nelson.