Hannah McLandress

Since the Beatles, women and girls have been shamed for what they like, but female fans haven’t let that stop them. In every era, fangirls have found each other and bonded over their interests, getting together in bedrooms — and stadiums — to celebrate the things that make them shriek.

Do you know who gave Canadian women the right to maternity leave? Who fought to have Canadian women seen as people in the eyes of the law? In her latest book, “Women Who Woke up the Law: Inside the Cases that Changed Women’s Rights in Canada”, Karin Wells brings readers into the legal trials and personal tribulations of the women who made Canadian legal history.