This survey of the Supreme Court of Canada’s pivotal anti-discrimination rulings over a 30-year period assesses the extent to which the shifting nature of the grounds approach and the Court’s conceptions of dignity together form part of a gendered system of enunciation at the intersection of autonomy, identity and affect. This article is written as a corrective to some of the author’s early optimism about the possibilities that dignity may offer in the context of constitutional equality rights cases and as a cautionary tale for those who would attempt to use it as a vehicle for rights claiming through the courts. These cases reveal that in the context of Canadian anti-discrimination law, the concept of dignity is most often used to circumscribe agency, limit subjectivity and curtail possibilities for redress by reducing large scale structural problems to the individual in ways that reproduce law’s originary violence.

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自主、身份和影响交叉点的尊严界限：加拿大最高法院的警示故事

这项对加拿大最高法院 30 年来关键反歧视裁决的调查评估了理由方法的变化性质和法院的尊严概念在多大程度上共同构成了性别化系统的一部分。自主性、身份和影响。这篇文章是为了纠正作者早期对尊严在宪法平等权利案件背景下可能提供的可能性的一些乐观态度，并为那些试图将其用作通过法律主张权利的工具的人提供了一个警示故事。法院。这些案例表明，在加拿大反歧视法的背景下，尊严的概念最常用于限制代理，