Sexual abuse by health care professionals: the failure of reform in Ontario.

Feminist attempts to ensure rigorous legal response to sexual violence against women and children have been characterized by persistent resistence and occasional victory. Feminist reform of law seeks to enhance women’s equality by eliminating embedded legal bias and by deterring legally sanctioned violence. Hostile resistance to feminist law reform has been most clearly demonstrated both in litigation strategies and through concerted lobbying against amendments to the Criminal Code sexual offence provisions. Similar battles have accompanied