fl: A Pathfinder

This is a computer-generated pathfinder created against the Distant Reader study called fl.

Each Distant Reader study carrel is composed of many individual items. Each item is bibliographically described with author, title, date, summary, and keyword values. Below is a list of the items' most signficant keywords as well as lists of the items themselves. Purpusing the content of this pathfinder provides the student, researcher, or scholar with one way to get their heads around the scope of the carrel. The keywords include:

Women; Gender; Feminist; Work; State; Rights; Violence; Sex; Labour; Reproduction; People; Care; Family; Power; Court; Public; Article; Time; Police; Disability; Case; Rape; Access; Book; Contract; Way; Education; Language; Commons; Security; Paper; Death; Queer; Resistance; Non; Home; Davies; Cornell; Genovese; Judgment; Surrogacy; Complainants; Dean; Picchio; Margaret; Oksala; Beverley; Fall; Nicola; Rosemary; File; Carr; Hunter; Giuliani

Depending on how this pathfinder was created, many of the bibliographic sections will include elaborations on the meaning(s) of the given keywords. These elaborations were generated by feeding the items' summaries to a large langauge model and asking the model to address the question, "What is X?", where "X" is the keyword. The result will be a few sentences of elaboration. Be forewarned. The elaborations are often plausible, but they should not be take as truth. Instead, they should be taken as points for consideration.

• Unpaid Care, Paid Work and Austerity: A Research Note by Busby, Nicole (2014) - Women in Middle Age In March 2012 House of Commons researchers analysed the effects of austerity measures on men and women (The Guardian 2012). Such women are often reliant on public services and will suffer as cuts are made to such provision: the 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review announced £34bn in cuts to funding for public services by 2012-13. Keywords: austerity; care; carers; economic; equality; government; impact; policy; society; women; work
• What Gender Does: Decertification of Legal Gender in India by Varman, Nipuna (2022) - She argues that the medical model goes against the right to dignity, autonomy and freedom of persons.[footnoteRef:23] Further, Kothari argues that the Supreme Court in the NALSA judgment, by ordering legal recognition of gender identities into defined categories – male, female or third gender – as a precondition to access welfare schemes, employment, etc. has made gender identity an essential part of one’s existence to enjoy civil rights.[footnoteRef:24] These liberties would consist of access to a passport, ration cards, driver’s license, education, reservation schemes, voter identity cards, etc.[footnoteRef:25] However, this emphasis on gender identity in accessing socioeconomic and civil rights must be questioned. However, there is criticism from within the LGBTQIA+ community for the manner in which these cases have been argued in front of the Supreme Court and for how the court has responded to the issue.[footnoteRef:10] It has been argued that the characterisation of criminalisation of same-sex relationships and lack of State sanction over transgender identities or any other self-determined gender identity has been centred around the notion of family, love, and the romanticised idea of dignity.[footnoteRef:11] However, there has been little to no acknowledgment of the State violence towards persons based on their gender, specifically when such gender is thought to be opposed to social mores or differs from the gender assigned at birth. Keywords: act; article; decertification; gender; gender identity; idea; identity; india; institutions; laws; person; property; recognition; rights; self; state; women
• Abject Labours, Informal Markets: Revisiting the Law's (Re)Production Boundary by Kotiswaran, Prabha (2014) - Based on my elaboration of the architecture of Indian labour laws and its applicability to female reproductive labour so far, two dilemmas emerge, both suggesting a lower relevance for labour law than initially assumed. Gendering Labour Law: An Introduction Feminist legal scholarship has for long richly contributed to the project of gendering labour law. Keywords: act; bar; care; economy; employment; feminist; labour; labour law; law; laws; recognition; sector; security; sex; sex workers; state; women; workers
• Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing: The Legal Standing of Fake Abortion Clinics by Leela de Paula (2022) - Secondly, many abortion clinics are subject to Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (TRAP) laws, additional regulations solely for abortion clinics. This form of misinformation weaponizes the law against pregnant women, intentionally keeping them oblivious about the time constraints of their reproductive decisions in their respective states and preventing them from being able to access legal abortion. Keywords: abortion; centers; clinics; cpcs; pregnancy; rights; women
• It Is Our Belief That Palestine is a Feminist Issue... by Lloyd, David (2014) - I will explain that Palestinian women are without any doubt more oppressed by Israel and Zionism than they are by their fellow Palestinian men, that a Palestinian woman’s freedom of movement, her right to an education, her right to vote, her right to work, her right to live where she wants, her right to sufficient food, clean water, and medical treatment in her own homeland are denied to her not by her fellow Palestinians but by the illegal occupying power, Israel.[footnoteRef:2] Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian documents in often painful detail the impact on Palestinian women of Israel’s will to contain and reduce the Palestinian population in East Jerusalem in particular (an area currently targeted with particular intensity for settlement expansion, given Israel’s determination to appropriate this historically Palestinian city as part of its “eternal capital”). Keywords: academic; boycott; colonial; feminist; israel; kevorkian; occupation; palestinian; reproduction; shalhoub; state; women
• Palestinian Feminist Critique and the Physics of Power: Feminists Between Thought and Practice by Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera (2014) - The various forms of oppression facing Palestinian women, and the discrimination that violates their rights (Rouhana, 1997), along with the Israeli state’s structural violence (Rouhana and Sultani, 2003) have proliferated. Portraying women as biopolitical threats to the existence of the settler colonial power, added to the geo-political need to dispossess their land and constrain them spatially, has effectively framed Palestinians as feared entities that can’t be trusted (e.g. Kassem, 2011) Grounded in the knowledge produced through my own position as a Palestinian feminist born and raised in Haifa, this paper delves into the nature of feminism for Palestinian women in the Jewish settler colonial state by asking three main questions: 1. Keywords: colonial; feminist; israel; palestinian; physics; power; settler; state; violence; women
• Postcolonial Dynamics in Pro- and Anti-Trans Activism in the United Kingdom and Ireland by Duffy, Sandra (2023) - However, a resistance to anti-trans narratives has arisen from within grassroots Irish feminism, representing the true spirit of Irish women and feminists as trans-inclusionary – which was swiftly countered by other, anti-trans, groups, purporting to base a trans-exclusionary ideology in Irish nationalism and iconography. Fletcher shows how Britain was sometimes considered as infiltrating Irish Catholicism with “‘Protestant’ pro-choice values”;[footnoteRef:12] sometimes construed as a foreign power from which Irishness had to be protected; sometimes viewed as a necessary evil by pro-choice proponents who nevertheless saw its mistreatment of Irish women as a colonial operation. Keywords: abortion; act; anti; britain; colonial; feminist; gender; gender recognition; ibid; ireland; irish; paper; people; persons; postcolonial; recognition; review; rights; september; sex; trans; trans rights; women
• Bodies, Buses and Permits: Palestinians Navigating Care by Sharif, Rana (2014) - Finally, I will conclude with some reflections on how the current Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is one means of addressing the forms of power exercised over Palestinian bodies living under occupation. Abu Abed, 74, from Hebron Abu Abed’s story is just one of many examples of how Palestinian bodies are exposed to the Israeli state by their pursuit of medical attention. Keywords: bank; bodies; bus; life; occupation; palestinian; time; west; women
• Some Reflections on BDS and Feminist Political Solidarity by Bhandar, Brenna (2014) - [S]ince 1948 the Israeli authorities have pursued concerted policies of colonisation and appropriation of Palestinian land. The language of non-discrimination doesn’t in my view adequately describe the reality of the ongoing, daily appropriation of Palestinian land in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Naqab (Negev) and many other areas, which begins in the post-Mandate era with the Absentee Property Law. Keywords: april; bank; bds; feminist; israel; land; law; occupation; palestine; palestinian; state; west; women
• How can feminists respond to the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization? by Renz, Flora; Duggan, Marian (2022) - Even if such measures take less restrictive forms than outright abortion bans, they nevertheless designate reproductive healthcare decisions as a matter for public debate and policy and imply that having more children is inherently good and important for society. While many political leaders in the Global North immediately condemned the decision, other leaders including Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and German far right politician Beatrix von Storch celebrated this new restriction on reproductive rights and expressed their hope that their own countries would soon follow the example set by the US.[footnoteRef:6] [5: See, e.g. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/05/politics/indiana-state-house-abortion-bill/index.html; last accessed 23 October 2022. ] Keywords: abortion; decision; dobbs; women
• Right to Life Means No Right to Death with Dignity by White, Pamela (2022) - [2016];Durbin K. Monroe Co parents proposing “Bobby’s Law” in honor of son taken off life support. For pregnant US women, the prospect of cadaveric gestation has become a reality regardless of potential for foetal viability and irrespective of advance directives, family wishes, or surrogacy contracts that may have been completed. Keywords: death; life; medical; state; support; women
• Foetal Protection Laws: paving the way for the criminalisation of abortion by Milne, Emma (2022) - Many foetal protection laws across the US were enacted to protect pregnant women and their unborn babies from attack by third parties, often abusive male partners, or ex-partners. Pregnant women who fear they will be reported to the police avoid accessing medical care. Keywords: protection; women
• Babushkas between Lesbian-Headed Families and the Russian State: Making an Intelligible Model of Extended Mothering by Zhabenko, Alisa (2023) - I contribute to this previous literature through my novel analysis of the significance of strategies to cope with different grandmaternal relationships in Russian lesbian families under legal oppression, albeit in the specific cultural context[footnoteRef:15] of extended female-maintained families and an oppressive post-socialist state’s legal and social framework. Similarly, the legal situation in which Russian lesbian families currently raise minors leaves non-biological mothers particularly vulnerable. Keywords: babushkas; biological; care; children; families; family; female; grandmothers; kinship; law; lesbian; mother; parenting; parents; relationships; research; role; russian; society; soviet; state; support; women
• “Thank God, I have a Separate Dwelling”: Restructuring Kinship through Grandmaternal Sidelining in the Heterosexual Families of Russian Natural-Parenting Mothers by Avdeeva, Anna (2023) - The analysis of my empirical data demonstrates that Russian natural mothers distance their children from the elder kinsfolk both physically and emotionally in order to limit the influence of the elder female kinsfolk on their children. Forms of maternal care for children other than natural parenting were seen by Russian natural mothers as unnatural, abnormal, against nature, or simply less ‘natural’, and therefore as wrong. Keywords: breastfeeding; child; childcare; children; families; family; grandmothers; interviewees; kinship; knowledge; mothering; mothers; parenting; practices; russia; soviet; state; women
• Marginalisations and Redefinitions of Kinship in Contemporary Cuba by Härkönen, Heidi (2023) - Sex workers were marginalised in pre-revolutionary Cuba, and in post-Soviet Cuba, have represented a profession that was officially eliminated during the revolutionary process (Lewis et al. 2003), with the revolution promising to abolish such (and other) forms of marginalisation (Eckstein 1994: 130, 135-136, 149-155). After this, I will discuss the general characteristics of everyday life in post-Soviet Cuba and move on to discuss the specific story of an Afro-Cuban, elderly woman who has come to experience sudden exclusions in her kin relations in the new Cuba. Keywords: changes; contemporary; cuba; experiences; gender; härkönen; interlocutors; kinship; marginalisation; new; people; persons; press; regla; relations; relationships; research; sexuality; social; state; support; understandings; university; women
• A Conversation with Lady Hale about Feminism, Law and Citizenship by Hale, Brenda; Hunter, Rosemary; Rackley, Erika (2023) - I think it’s one of the things about being in a minority, but a minority whose influence is growing, so linking up with other women has always been important. Other women and other feminists, sorry [laughs], other people, who are interested in the same things, that’s always been important. Keywords: citizenship; course; court; feminist; hale; lady; law; people; question; things; women
• Noemí Pérez Vásquez, Women’s Access to Transitional Justice in Timor-Leste: The Blind Letters, Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2022 by Medawatte, Danushka (2023) - Using the case study of Timor-Leste, Pérez Vásquez investigates how women navigate TJ processes against extant patriarchal convictions of both international and national actors. Timorese women experience how TJ processes overlook these complexities because TJ, according to Pérez Vásquez, predominantly represents a masculine human rights strategy that intervenes in the lives of the post-colonial subjects. Keywords: justice; pérez; research; vásquez; women
• If Wishes Came True - Future Research Issues for Feminist Legal Scholarship and feminists@law by Svensson, Eva-Maria (2011) - When thinking of urgent future research issues for feminist legal studies, I started with the image of the discipline explicitly and implicitly presented in this publication. From Anglo-national to international As a discipline or as a perspective in law, feminist legal studies has developed in different parts of the world, and in different jurisdictions. Keywords: consequences; feminist; women
• Sharon Thompson, Quiet Revolutionaries: The Married Women's Association and Family Law (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) by Porter, Antonia (2023) - The chapter thus introduces the reader to the complexity of the legal status of married women, even after coverture, and how the Association had to unpick each injustice and identify their preferred strategy for legal reform. The book celebrates the Association’s considered and tactical strategies to effect family law reform whilst being clear that their sometimes behind-the-scenes methodology did not reflect any diminished sense of urgency for The Cause. Keywords: association; chapter; law; reform; thompson; women
• Law and the Reproduction Sphere as the Place of a Double Production of Value by Fortunati, Leopoldina (2023) - The Arcane (1981) was the first place where Marxist Feminists systematised this discourse on immaterial domestic labour. One the main problems with the resumption of this discourse on immaterial domestic labour was that the autonomists did not pay attention to the historical dynamics that had developed in the meantime in the reproduction sphere. Keywords: fortunati; labour; reproduction; sphere; value; women; work
• Social Reproduction, Feminism and the Law: Ships in the Night Passing Each Other by Kotiswaran, Prabha (2023) - Much of the early, path-breaking work by legal feminists dealt with the lack of legal recognition of women’s reproductive labour as valuable whether in the fields of family law, tort law, welfare law, bankruptcy law, tax law, labour law (Silbaugh, 1996), property law, EU and international law (Conaghan, 2007), immigration law, tenancy law and household norms (Halley and Rittich, 2010) and now constitutional law (Suk, 2012). Redistributive feminists are also legal realists highlighting the contingency of legal categories (see also Fudge, 2014); thus, we may default to family law for recognising women’s reproductive labour, but we could well default to labour law. Keywords: care; family; feminist; labour; law; market; reproduction; social; women; work
• The Social Reproduction of Value, Body Depletion, and Wages for the Wageless across the Global Social Factory by Mezzadri, Alessandra (2023) - The Social Reproduction of Value Analyses centred on ‘Social Reproduction’ are back onto mainstream discussions in social sciences since the publication of Tithi Bhattacharya’s volume Social Reproduction Theory (2017). Moreover, they fetishise the wage as the value of labour whilst - as Antonella Picchio (1992) reminded us in her wonderful Social Reproduction and the Labour Market – the wage is only one form of its pricing. Keywords: capitalism; exploitation; factory; labour; reproduction; value; women; workers
• Introduction to Laws of Social Reproduction Lectures by Kotiswaran, Prabha (2023) - As we know, social reproduction is what makes human life possible. For decades, there has been a profusion of feminist scholarship on social reproduction across disciplines. Keywords: feminist; international; labour; law; professor; reproduction; university; women; work
• Visibility and Value at Work: The Legal Organization of Productive and Reproductive Work: First Annual Lecture in the Laws of Social Reproduction, 18 August 2020 by Rittich, Kerry (2023) - It’s not a surprise that when the legal powers as well as the resources are on one side, options on the other side are limited, there is no effective voice or input by the worker and the resulting terms of work arrangements are poor; consider who does domestic work but also other forms of low-paid service and production work. Let me get into this topic by briefly discussing a form of work that is emblematic of reproductive work yet, because it is also market work, problematic: domestic work. Keywords: care; development; example; family; labour; law; market; reproduction; rules; terms; way; women; work; workers; world
• From Reproducing Labour Power to Reproducing our Struggle: A Strategy for a Revolutionary Feminism: Second Annual Lecture in the Laws of Social Reproduction, 13 July 2021 by Federici, Silvia (2023) - Because this is what has emerged is that we are engaged women traditionally, the majority of women engage in activity, it has a double character with an activity for both that is essential for the reproduction of our life, and therefore is intimately in all its forms involved in the reproduction of life and at the same time continuously captures this thought that finalize, the reproduction of our exploitation to the reproduction of labour power, the workforce etc. Because I think that one of the dangers in here, I want to come closer to the present, one of the dangers that I think many women, many families have encountered is the pain, the suffering, the exploitation the devaluation of this work. Keywords: home; life; movement; reproduction; struggle; women; work
• Criminal Justice Policy and Victim-Survivor Empowerment: A Case Study of Domestic Violence Disclosure Schemes in England and Wales by Barlow, Charlotte; Walklate, Sandra; Renehan, Nicole (2024) - When advocacy for domestic violence victims backfires.  When advocacy for domestic violence victims backfires: Types and sources of victim disempowerment. Keywords: abuse; dvds; empowerment; information; justice; police; process; relationship; survivors; victim; violence; women
• Exploring the Outcomes of Divergent Approaches to the Policy Making Process: Domestic Violence Disclosure Schemes and Perpetrator Registers in Australia by Fitz-Gibbon, Kate; Walklate, Sandra; Reeves, Ellen (2024) - However, it was also a further example of the emergence of ‘named’ laws in relation to gender-based violence more broadly, and policy processes that are reactive to individual cases, ‘single stage, executive controlled’ as Quilter (2020: 112) observes. The efficacy of Clare’s Law in domestic violence law reform in England and Wales. Keywords: australian; commission; dvds; family; government; inquiry; law; making; policy; process; reform; report; scheme; violence; women
• Cynthia Enloe, Twelve Feminist Lessons of War (University of California Press, 2023) by Puya Habibi, Nasima (2024) - Lesson five, ‘Women as armed insurgents offer feminist caveats’, presents the visible role that women have had in the wars in some countries, like the Vietnam War and the Battle of Algiers. Lesson four, ‘Women as soldiers is not liberation’ addresses women's role and recruitment into the military and the challenges women soldiers face during their duties. Keywords: enloe; feminist; war; wartime; women
• The Emergence of AI-Generated Deepfakes as a New Tool for Gender-Based Violence Against Women: A Brief Narrative Review of Evidence and the Implications of the Techno-Feminist Perspective by Akter, Mst. Safia; Ahmed, Pavel (2025) - In a study of almost 9000 Germans, a noticeable gender disparity was found among users of the internet aged 10 to 50: females compared to males were considerably more likely to have experienced the effects of online stalking and the trauma of this kind of violence was greater among women victims (Staude-Müller et al., 2012). We use a techno-feminist perspective to argue that deepfake technology is an addition to the tools that are used to form a patriarchal-capitalist society. Keywords: abuse; cybercrime; deepfakes; gender; journal; new; online; research; technology; violence; women
• Revisiting 'Beyond Accommodation' After Twenty Years by Cornell, Drucilla (2011) - Many feminists built on Judith Butler’s path-breaking notion of gender as performance, to challenge the idea of “woman,” or even a conception of any shared reality of “woman” that could be the basis of some kind of account of gender that could give us a comprehensive notion of women’s oppression and women’s freedom. But that said, my concern to rethink the feminine within sexual difference was not only to hold open a space for utopian possibility: it was also to recognize that the problem with the idea of woman or women was that it not only homogenized a group that was in fact very diverse, but that it operated to erase racial, cultural, and ethnic difference, an erasure that went against the very idea of what I had named “ethical feminism.” Keywords: ethical; feminism; new; notion; symbolic; women; york
• 'We Are Not Leaving the Istanbul Convention': Disappearance of Istanbul Convention from Turkiye and presence of unlikely feminist legal spaces in international law-making by Ozsoy, Elif Ceylan; Soykan, Cavidan (2025) - As pointed out by Margaret Davies, an absence of feminist legal spaces is presumed when feminist analyses of law are made. In this article, we investigate feminist legal spaces that are part of the legal realm, but not an extension of vertical normativity. Keywords: convention; davies; feminist; gender; international; interview; istanbul convention; law; legality; resistance; rights; spaces; state; türkiye; vertical; withdrawal; women
• The Golden Thread of Woolmington - A Domestic Yarn That Should Never Have Been Spun by Dyer, Karen (2025) - It has been completed with potential answers recorded on behalf of Violet Woolmington. ] Unfortunately, there were no such restrictions in place to protect Violet Woolmington. Keywords: abuse; assessment; case; control; dara; risk; victims; violence; violet; women; woolmington
• Introduction to the Special Section - Feminism, Law and Citizenship: An International Collection by Auchmuty, Rosemary; Nedelec, Alexandrine (2025) - Alongside reproductive freedom (perhaps the strongest theme of the conference) and women’s representation in public life and the legal profession, contributions examined historical and contemporary legal issues for women in family law, employment law, immigration law, and criminal law in the various regions represented. The unique feature of this research is that its methodology was based on the understanding that young people should be allowed to speak for themselves, that this is a human rights matter, and that only by enabling young people to participate not simply as objects but as co-designers of research, can we fully realise the problems facing young women growing up with violence and abuse, and work towards their solution. Keywords: citizenship; conference; feminism; law; women
• Citizenship and Family Law in Tunisia and Iran: Domestic and International Influences by Moghadam, Valentine M (2025) - The public and private rights of women are very different: Tunisia is a signatory to the UN’s Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) but Iran is not. Such world-society effects paved the way for the UN’s first world conference on women – in Mexico City in 1975 – followed by the Decade for Women (1976-85). Keywords: acts; article; citizenship; citizenship rights; countries; democratic; economic; family; feminist; gender; international; iran; islamic; law; middle; new; rights; sanctions; society; state; tunisia; women; world
• Children's Perspectives on Violence and Discrimination Against Girls in Nepal by Doel-Mackaway, Holly; Maharjan, Lachhindra (2025) - This is an important finding from the research that highlights the importance of researchers being aware that young children and young females face age and gender related barriers that can hinder their ability to participate in research processes. Researchers must take specific measures to mitigate these barriers to facilitate the full and meaningful participation of young children and young females in research. Keywords: article; boys; children; discrimination; food; gender; girls; harassment; laws; nepal; participants; people; research; rights; violence; women
• When Silence Makes Sense: The Trivialization of Rape in Côte d’Ivoire by Gnazalé, Annick (2025) - Nevertheless, there is still work to be done in terms of reporting rape cases and the attitude of police officers towards rape victims. This point was also made by Véronique Moufflet, who noted that a significant proportion of rape victims of the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have kept their silence since 1996. Keywords: article; code; côte; d'ivoire; data; des; femmes; june; les; penal; police; rape; silence; victim; violence; women
• Exploring the Highlights, Limitations and Possibilities of EU Citizenship as a Progressive Status for Gays and Lesbians by Hamilton, Frances (2025) - This section therefore analyses the impact of EU law for those who stay at home (‘stayers’), who comprise 96.2% of EU citizens.[footnoteRef:161] The conception of EU citizenship rights being portrayed as pro-feminist and lesbian and gay inclusive[footnoteRef:162] is perhaps most influenced by the impact that the EU has had in the area of paid employment, which falls within the area of EU competencies. Pinning free movement (one of the most crucial aspects of EU citizenship) to economic activity serves to illustrate the continuing difficulties of EU law in not considering substantive barriers to certain groups in trying to access EU rights. Keywords: article; case; citizenship; commission; directive; discrimination; economic; employment; equality; eu citizenship; european; family; free; gender; ibid; law; lesbians; lgbtiq; member; movement; rights; sex; states; union; women
• Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation Report: Alternative Executive Summary by Mairead Enright, 25 Law academics, edited by Aoife O'Donoghue and (2025) - According to this article approximately six ‘coloured’ children were adopted every year but there was a backlog of 20 such children ‘causing a big headache for various organisations dealing with child adoption,’ In particular, it recognises that many children whose families were able to resist or avoid coerced adoption benefitted, not only from their families’ care, but from the preservation of constitutional rights which the law then in force denied to many adopted people. Keywords: abuse; access; act; adoption; alternative; baby; birth; cases; catholic; children; clann; commission; committee; confidential; consent; discrimination; evidence; example; executive; family; feminists@law; girls; government; health; homes; homes commission; human; information; institutions; investigation; ireland; irish; labour; law; mother; parents; people; public; records; report; rights; separation; social; state; summary; testimony; time; treatment; university; vol; witnesses; women; work
• Asking for the Moon: A "Musing" on Cornell's 'Beyond Accommodation: Ethical Feminism, Deconstruction and the Law' by van Marle, Karin (2011) - Karin Van Marle* The first writing of Drucilla Cornell that I ever read - and have reread many times thereafter - was her 1990 Cornell Law Review publication titled ‘The Doubly-Prized World: Myth, Allegory and The Feminine.’ ‘Asking for the moon’ - A ‘musing’ on Cornell’s Beyond accommodation Karin Van Marle ‘Asking for the Moon’ __________________________________________________________________________________ feminists@law Vol 1, No 1 (2011) __________________________________________________________________________________ ‘Asking for the moon’ - A ‘musing’ on Cornell’s Beyond Accommodation: Ethical Feminism, Deconstruction and the Law. Keywords: cornell; law; women
• How can critical and feminist scholars respond to the decision in 'For Women Scotland'? by Dunne, Peter; Grabham, Emily; Renz, Flora (2025) - It includes a reflection on legal status more broadly by Alan Brown, a discussion of the concept of ‘sex’ in the jurisprudence of England and Wales by Joanne Conaghan and Katie Cruz, an analysis of the role and significance of history by Caroline Derry, a focus on the feminist legal history in which FWS sits by Rosemary Hunter, a spotlight on the role of EU law by Jule Mulder, an engagement with the possible ramifications for sports law by Seema Patel, a call for better understanding of the biological complexity of sex by Mitch Travis and Fae Garland, looking for hope in para 267 of the FWS judgment by Mihika Poddar, and finally a challenge to the overreliance on ‘predictability’ as a positive legal value by Aleardo Zanghellini. The decision by Lord Hodge, Lady Rose and Lady Simler, with Lords Reed and Lloyd-Jones concurring, sets out that, for the purposes of the EA, the terms ‘man’ and ‘woman’ are intended to refer solely to ‘biological sex’ as determined at birth.[footnoteRef:5] Keywords: decision; fws; sex; women
• 'For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers': An error of judgment by Hunter, Rosemary (2025) - The Court decided that the word ‘women’ in the Equality Act 2010 (EA) does not include trans women. In reliance on this section, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)’s then guidance stated that ‘women’ in the EA included trans women holding a GRC. Keywords: court; decision; sex; trans; women
• For women? Sex in the Supreme Court by Conaghan, Joanne; Cruz, Katie (2025) - Unsurprisingly, then, the thrust of feminist rhetoric from Wollstonecraft onwards was to downplay the significance of biological sex in relation to legal and social arrangements and to strive for a world in which - ‘unless love animates the behaviour’ - sex was of no significance. And if we view biological sex more broadly to include secondary sex characteristics (such as bone density, body hair, height, and voice pitch), the categories of male and female pretty much cease to be useful. Keywords: gender; law; nature; sex; women
• Sex is complicated by Garland, Fae; Travis, Mitchell (2025) - The judgment in For Women Scotland quickly taxonomises sex into two distinct categories; biological sex and certified sex. Throughout the judgment, this taxonomy is utilised to show that whilst biological sex is coherent and stable, certified sex brings a number of absurdities when applied to cases such as pregnancy and single sex services. Keywords: characteristics; sex; women
• 'For Women Scotland' - Fractured reality of legal gender and the push towards trans legal personhood by Poddar, Mihika (2025) - Poddar Fractured reality of legal gender and the push towards trans legal personhood _____________________________________________________________________________________ feminists@law Vol 14, No 2 (2025) _____________________________________________________________________________________ For Women Scotland – Fractured reality of legal gender and the push towards trans legal personhood Mihika Poddar [footnoteRef:1]* [1: *DPhil candidate, University of Oxford, mihika.poddar@law.ox.ac.uk. Moreover, in the context of representation, in the last paragraph of its decision, it observed: “There may well be public boards on which it is also important for trans people of either or both genders to be represented... Keywords: gender; trans; women
• Feminist Jurisography: Woman's Estate, Australia, 1970 by Genovese, Ann (2025) - Second, she took up Beauvoir’s transformative declaration in 1949, ‘I write it’, which deviated existentialist philosophy, and ‘the woman problem’, from male assumption to feminist inversion, and showed a way for a new generations of women writers to claim one’s self and one’s knowledge as central to any scholarly enquiry.[footnoteRef:10] Mitchell argued for ‘a specific theory of women’s oppression’ (1977: 75, 75-96). But in rapid succession, and with a sense of what feminist artist, writer and broadcaster Virginia Fraser would later call a ‘mad confidence’ (Fraser 2010), Australian women’s liberationists ‘initiat[ed] then develop[ed] our own style’ (Curthoys 2013b). Keywords: beauvoir; books; curthoys; estate; feminist; genovese; ibid; law; mitchell; new; sex; women; writing
• The Lost Manifestos on Social Reproduction: Revisiting Wages For/Against Housework by Kintominas, Angela (2025) - In a recent anthology, Breanne Fahs revisits the peculiar genre of feminist manifestos, noting that they have a ‘particularly obscure history’ and that ‘[u]ntil recently, almost nothing had been written about feminist manifestos at all’.[footnoteRef:7] In her introduction Fahs deftly reflects – quoting Jeannette Winterson – that ‘[we] seem to have run in a great circle, and met [ourselves] again on the starting line’.[footnoteRef:8] This déjà vu seems particularly resonant for feminist manifestos on social reproduction. Keywords: care; costa; dalla; family; federici; feminist; housewife; housework; ibid; james; labour; law; manifestos; power; reproduction; role; wages; women; work
• Cojoining the Witch and the Cyborg in Feminist Theory: Revisiting Gender Related Violence Through Old and New Materialism by Bak McKenna, Miriam; Navntoft Henningsen, Liv (2025) - In opposition to radical feminists’ tendency to treat gender violence as a discrete, albeit endemic problem of patriarchy (MacKinnon 1989), for feminist materialists gender violence cannot be decoupled from socio-economic patterns and variables of labour, poverty, reproduction and the disciplining of bodies within capitalism in daily lives (True 2012; Goldblatt and Rai 2020). Within a feminist political economy analysis of gender violence, sites of social reproduction are also best understood as a “heterotopia” (Foucault 1986: 24) To understand gendered violence in new materialist feminist terms, one first must understand the perception of gender as something that is always enacted in relation to various instances and circumstances. Keywords: capitalism; cyborg; feminist; forms; gender; gender violence; gendered; haraway; human; international; journal; labour; law; materialism; power; press; relations; routledge; theory; university; violence; witch; women
• The Salience of the "Cyborg Manifesto": A Reboot by Turnbull, Amanda (2025) - [4: Donna J. Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto” in Donna J. Haraway & Cary Wolfe, eds, Manifestly Haraway (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016) 3 at 55. ] Donna Haraway is a scientist, philosopher, and her political affiliations are those of a socialist feminist.[footnoteRef:5] ] Haraway has also suggested we should keep “pushing it and filling it”[footnoteRef:106] and that “cyborg figurations can continue to do critical work. Keywords: canon; cyberfeminism; cyborg; donna; environment; feminist; gender; haraway; ibid; law; manifesto; metaphor; methodology; new; note; press; supra; technology; university; violence; women; york
• 'Decide One More Time': Prostitution and Sexual Intelligence in the Early Writings of Andrea Dworkin by Benedet, Janine (2025) - Read together, these early writings help us to understand why so many women, on both the Right and the Left, believe that their equality can be achieved while other women continue to be prostituted, and why women continue to look the other way when faced with this expression of male sexual entitlement. Sometimes this is explained away by saying that the sex drive is natural for human beings, although women do not buy sex from men or other women in large numbers to satisfy their own “natural” sex drives. Keywords: analysis; andrea; book; dworkin; feminists; industry; left; male; new; prostitution; right; sex; way; wing; women; world; york
• Materialism, Sex Work, and the Law: Doing Feminist Legal Theory Differently by Cruz, Katie (2025) - Having revealed this reality, women workers are then able to collectively change it. Federici genders Marx’s description of primitive accumulation or expropriation to tell the bloody history of women workers, who, like men, were divorced from the land and forced to rely on wage labour to survive, but unlike men, were divorced from their previous labours, ways of living, and forms of knowledge and forced into the home to perform the necessary reproductive work of raising and nourishing their husbands and a family of future workers (2004: 74-75). Keywords: capitalism; cruz; domination; essence; expropriation; federici; feminist; labour; law; mackinnon; prostitution; sex; sex work; sexuality; women; work; workers
• Sexual Politics in the Twenty-First Century: Practices of Silencing by Altuzarra Alonso, Itziar (2025) - As a consequence, considering sexual violence as the set of practices that unjustly harm the ways in which many women live and experience sexuality but which are not necessarily acts of a sexual nature, I talk about epistemic sexual violence. Abstract This paper examines the spectrum of sexual violence that permeates women's lives, among others, often unnoticed by most of society. Keywords: authors; collective; experiences; fact; feminist; fricker; injustice; law; patriarchal; rape; sexuality; violence; women
• A Magna Carta for All Women by Facio, Alda (2011) - 1- A communications procedure that allows individual women or groups of women to submit to the Committee claims of violations of the rights protected by the Convention. � For example the reservation made by Morocco to Article 2 states “It should be noted that certain of the provisions contained in the Moroccan Code of Personal Status according women rights that differ from the rights conferred on men may not be infringed upon or abrogated because they derive primarily from the Islamic Shariah, which strives, among its other objectives, to strike a balance between the spouses in order to preserve the coherence of family life.” Keywords: cedaw; committee; convention; discrimination; human; rights; states; women
• Priorities of Feminist Legal Research: A sketch, a draft agenda, a hint of an outline... by Nesiah, Vasuki (2011) - Similarly, if feminist legal research agendas are going to be intellectually robust and subversive of received truth claims, we may need to unpack the universalization of analytical prisms such as the public/private distinction and examine the conditions of their production.   If feminist legal research is to rediscover an intellectually and politically radical space it may need to interrogate its own claims.  Keywords: feminist; international; law; women
• Judging in the Presence of Women as Legal Persons – Feminist alternative to the Indian Supreme Court Judgment in Sakshi v. Union of India by Mukherjee, Madhumanti (2011) - Rape laws in their earliest version were indeed property laws that forbade trespass into other men’s legitimate property rights in their own women.[footnoteRef:42] Similarly, in Indian rape law, the woman raped is not the victim. Keywords: court; definition; feminist; india; ipc; judgment; kinds; law; laws; penile rape; petitioner; psv; rape; rape law; rights; section; supreme court; vaginal; violence; women
• The Polish Catholic Church and the Regulation of IVF in Poland: Polarised Political Discourses and the Battle over ‘Proper’ Reproduction by Gozdecka, Dorota Anna (2012) - Projekt ustawy o ochronie genomu ludzkiego i embrionu ludzkiego, [Draft law on the protection of human genome and embryo], Druk 3466, 18 June 2009, p. 36, para. In the context of IVF, Patricia Jennings has illustrated, in her study concerning the responses of religious women to IVF, that religious attitudes may be diverse and the impact of religion on women’s choices different.[footnoteRef:167] For some, religion in fact provides a spiritual platform enabling reconciliation with infertility.[footnoteRef:168] Due to these differences, both religiously and non-religiously motivated choices ought to be acknowledged in the best possible manner. Keywords: article; catholic; church; draft; embryo; family; human; ibid; ivf; law; life; note; poland; polish; procedure; proposals; protection; religion; religious; rights; supra; vitro; women
• Immaterial labour and alternative valorisation processes in Italian feminist debates: (re)exploring the ‘commons’ of re-production. by Alessandrini, Donatella (2012) - In the second section I engage with the most interesting aspects emerging from this analysis and show how the insights about the contingent nature of value production and measurement derive from the feminist work on immaterial labour and value. Thus, they claim, the tendency towards the hegemony of biopolitical production requires that we deal with ‘the new conditions of the production of surplus value’ - as value production invests all realms of life exceeding the confines of formal work time (Ibid:137) - so as to be able to identify the new (post-Fordist) forms of exploitation. Keywords: capitalist; commons; economy; feminist; hardt; labour; marx; negri; new; post; processes; production; state; time; valorisation; value; women; work
• Current and Future Issues for Feminist Legal Studies by Buss, Doris (2011) - For feminist legal studies, this contestation over the very doing of feminist research will be felt most immediately in the field of human rights. Each day that I open a newspaper in Canada, a pressing issue for feminist research leaps out. Keywords: feminist; research; women
• Gender Equality in the Swedish Welfare State by Svensson, Eva-Maria; Gunnarsson, Asa (2012) - Finally, we will explore the changes to gender equality policy brought about by Sweden’s membership of the European Union; for example, the increasing focus on individual rights and anti-discrimination strategies coupled with the decreasing concern about the structural patterns of gender inequalities. A prominent characteristic of the Swedish model is truly the fact that gender equality policy is closely intertwined with the Swedish welfare state ideology. Keywords: discrimination; equality; gender; gender equality; gunnarsson; law; measures; policy; sex; social; sou; state; svensson; sweden; swedish; welfare; women
• Constructions of Normality and the Boundaries of Social Citizenship – Solo Mothers in the Swedish Welfare Model by Wennberg, Lena (2012) - European integration is not only reflected in the link between the labour market and social welfare but also in contemporary legal harmonisation exercises concerning family law in the Nordic countries and Europe. As I have explained above, the new discourse about social welfare reflects a more work- and choice-oriented and less redistributive approach. Keywords: equality; family; gender; insurance; law; model; mothers; rights; security; solo; state; swedish; welfare; women; work
• A Gender Perspective on Flexicurity and the Swedish Employment Protection Act by Ulander-Wanman, Carin (2012) - � In the EU, 34% of women employees work part-time compared to 7% of men; Fredman, “Women at Work: The Broken Promise of Flexicurity”, p. 302. In principle, the only restrictions are that the collective agreement must not be discriminatory, be intended to terminate unorganized employees employment, or go against good custom in the labour market. Keywords: employees; employment; flexicurity; labour; market; sepa; women; work
• Immigrant Women Facing Male Partner Violence – Gender, Race and Power in Swedish Alien and Criminal Law by Burman, Monica (2012) - Yet cases of male partner violence against minority women are less often successfully prosecuted by the police than cases of violence against women with a Swedish background and minority women report that they experience worse treatment from the police than Swedish women do (BRÅ 2008b). Monica Burman Burman Immigrant Women Facing Male Partner Violence feminists@law Vol 2, No 1 (2012) Immigrant women facing male partner violence – gender, race and power in Swedish alien and criminal law Monica Burman* Introduction The main concern of this article is the legal situation for women who have immigrated into Sweden to enter an intimate relationship with a man with rights of residence, but are subjected to violence by that man. Keywords: case; criminal; gender; immigrant; law; partner; power; relationship; residence; rights; rule; sweden; swedish; violence; women
• Persecution on Account of One’s Gender: Refugee Status or Status Quo? by Nilsson, Eva (2012) - Accordingly, the ‘special’ character of migration law implies demands different from those usually required when providing for the ‘rule of law’; globalization and the threat of ‘illegal’ migrants seeking asylum being the key point, bringing with it restriction of refugee law while expanding refugee rhetoric. Refugees and refugee law are therefore now located at the centre of concern about illegal migration. Keywords: asylum; convention; gender; international; law; migration; persecution; protection; refugee; status; violence; women
• Swedish Gender Equality for Trafficked Women? Radical Official Remedies and Ethnic Otherness by Yttergren, Asa (2012) - Ethnicity was found to be an important factor in Swedish prostitution when marketing sexual services (Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare 2007). On the other hand trafficked women are understood as being unable to make decisions about whether or not to cooperate with the Swedish public authorities, and are given time to think things over. Keywords: bill; criminalization; equality; gender; government; persons; police; prop; prostitution; services; sex; sou; sweden; swedish; trafficking; women
• The Need for an International Focus by Archampong, Elizabeth (2011) - At the regional level, Article 4 of the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa requires all State Parties to enact and enforce law to prohibit violence against women. Low literacy among African women breeds low self-esteem and an inability to effectively challenge patriarchy. Keywords: feminists@law; women
• Women Workers: Is Equality Enough? by Fudge, Judy (2012) - A key problem with mounting a challenge to policies that roll back equality laws is that feminism’s demand for equality has lost its emancipatory edge.[footnoteRef:68] Equality for women workers is not enough since such claims are compatible with the rampant commodification of care, increasing polarization amongst women, and increasing inequality for men. [footnoteRef:49] Since it is mostly women who assume the family roles of migrant women, there is a growing need for reconciliation policies in the South.[footnoteRef:50] Keywords: canada; care; discrimination; employment; equality; gender; labour; law; market; supra; time; women; work
• A Very Binary Drama: The Conceptual Struggle for Gender's Future by Cooper, Davina (2019) - “A common language of gender?” Politics & Gender 1 (1): 128-137. As one organisation (Fair Play for Women) remarked, in response to the Scottish consultation on reforming procedures for gender transitioning, “Trans-ideology is the belief that the subjective concept of gender identity overrides the objective reality of bodily sex. Keywords: article; binary; conceptions; concepts; february; feminist; future; gdiv; gdom; gender; identity; law; life; new; self; sex; social; state; transgender; ways; women
• Race, Gender and Class: Some Reflections on Left Feminist Politics and Organising by Bhandar, Brenna (2013) - As Patricia Hill Collins has noted, Black women’s relationship to both paid labour and unpaid work in the home is significantly different from that of white women: A less developed but equally important theme concerns how Black women’s unpaid family labor is simultaneously confining and empowering for Black women. This means that the experiences of black women, Asian women (and, in other contexts, indigenous women) are erased or suppressed by the theories and politics of left feminisms. Keywords: class; gender; race; racism; women; work
• Lisa Downing, The Subject of Murder: Gender, Exceptionality, and the Modern Killer by Bradley, Jeremy C (2013) - Part and parcel of her methodology, Downing reflects on Foucault’s argument that a murder defendant’s behaviour is made to retrospectively correspond with his identity as a criminal (8). The use of the masculine pronoun here is important, for as many feminist legal scholars point out, liberal conceptions of law have painted the picture of the ‘rational’ person as an autonomous, rugged man ‘geared toward maximizing his self-interest effectively, efficiently, and expediently’.[footnoteRef:4] This is evident in legal standards such as the ‘reasonable man’ which position rationality akin to masculinity; and as Downing shows, women who murder are often treated particularly harshly or as though they were not really female at all (102). Keywords: book; case; downing; hindley; lacenaire; public; subject; women
• Reshaping How Political Settlements Engage with Conflict-Related Violence Against Women by Swaine, Aisling (2019) - This is the pre-conflict status of women and prevalence of VAW upon which armed conflict violence erupts. Scars of vote violence remain real for many East Timor women. Keywords: actors; analysis; cavr; conflict; context; crvaw; forms; framework; gender; gendered; harms; international; leste; post; research; time; timor; vaw; violence; war; women
• We Have a Plan: Feminist Plan to Combat Male Violence Against Women and Gender-Based Violence by Non Una Meno (2019) - These are places where collective action strategies can be outlined for empowerment, for combating gender violence and for advocating health and sexual pleasure. There is a close connection between the ongoing move towards capitalist, neoliberal structures and gender violence, which is perpetuated in such an environment as a result of new ways of segmenting and fragmenting work, marginalisation, forced unemployment, exploitation and impoverishment; the welfare system is being gradually dismantled under the pretext of debt restructuring. Keywords: abuse; autonomy; centres; education; feminist; forms; gender; health; individuals; male; need; places; plan; public; right; self; services; social; spaces; system; training; violence; women; work
• Susan Atkins and Brenda Hoggett, Women and the Law, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, 2018 by Auchmuty, Rosemary (2019) - Though there have been other admirable examinations of the gendered nature of the law since this book appeared, notably Joanne Conaghan’s Law and Gender (OUP, 2013), Women and the Law remains indispensable for its clear and historically grounded account of the impact of our law on women and its analysis of how change comes about and how and why it is all too often hindered and resisted. What Women and the Law does is reveal the ways that the structural inequalities based on sex and the continuing injustices suffered by women continue to be maintained in spite of the legal ‘progress’ in every area of our lives. Keywords: atkins; law; women; years
• The Archers, The Radio, Violence against Women and Changing the World at Teatime by Samuels, Harriet (2020) - <� HYPERLINK https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/five-lessons-refuge-helen-titchener-fund/digital/article/1390124 �https://www.thirdsector.co.uk/five-lessons-refuge-helen-titchener-fund/digital/article/1390124�> accessed 9 February 2020 � Women’s Aid (n 26) � Refuge, Annual Report and Financial Statements 2016-17 (2017) 37 <� HYPERLINK https://www.refuge.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/refuge-annual-report-and-financial-accounts-2016-17.pdf �https://www.refuge.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/refuge-annual-report-and-financial-accounts-2016-17.pdf�> accessed 11 February 2020 � Refuge, ‘The Archers and Refuge’<� HYPERLINK https://www.refuge.org.uk/our-work/campaigns/more-refuge-campaigns/the-archers-and-refuge/ �https://www.refuge.org.uk/our-work/campaigns/more-refuge-campaigns/the-archers-and-refuge/�> accessed 11 February 2020 � Refuge, ‘Refuge Responds to The Archers “Not Guilty” Verdict’ (11 September 2016) � See generally L.J. Shrum, The Psychology of Entertainment Media: Blurring the Lines Between Entertainment and Persuasion (Routledge 2012). Keywords: abuse; activists; archers; bbc; control; drama; february; feminist; helen; law; public; radio; refuge; rob; story; storyline; vaw; violence; women; � hyperlink; � ibid
• Interpreting the Feminine in the Criminal Trial: Can the Insights of Rape Myth Scholarship Help Mothers Accused of Killing Their Children? by Orr, Gaye (2019) - By focussing on behavioural normativity and the deployment of fixed beliefs the article proposes a device based on the insights of rape myth scholarship with which to interrogate the behaviour evidence admitted in child death cases. [2: Referred to here as child death cases: R v Clark (Sally)(Appeal against Conviction) (No 2) Keywords: appeal; behaviour; beliefs; cannings; cases; child; children; clark; death; evidence; expert; health; ibid; ibid para; judge; law; mothering; mothers; myths; para; rape; trial; women
• Feminism and the Idea of Law by Davies, Margaret (2011) - Law and the Subject The perspective I wish to reconsider is that of the positivist separation of law. Law as an abstract and fictional object might be separate from religious, moral, or social norms similarly abstracted from selves, but there is little sense in saying that law is experientially or existentially separate in any sense. Keywords: court; feminist; judgments; law; system; women
• Revisiting Feminist Jurisprudence: A Rehabilitation by Drakopoulou, Maria (2013) - The Discursive Disappearance of Sexualised Violence: feminist law reform, judicial resistance, and neo-liberal sexual citizenship, in D. Chunn, S. Boyd and H. Lessard (eds.), Reaction and Resistance: Feminism, Law and Social Change. Law, or to be more precise, the theoretical and philosophical questions of law with which jurisprudence has concerned itself, does not however seem to have benefitted from such excavations. Keywords: body; discussion; feminist; history; identity; jurisprudence; knowledge; language; law; london; positionality; power; press; scholarship; theory; tradition; university; women
• Seeing Things Differently: Art, Law and Justice in the Scottish Feminist Judgments Project by Cowan, Sharon; Kennedy, Chloë; Munro, Vanessa E (2020) - In this section, we want to reflect on some of the tensions and challenges that we experienced, as well as some things that – with hindsight – we would have done differently, in the hopes of offering insights for those who might seek to embed creative perspectives in similar ways in other legal projects in the future. In bringing art and law together in one project and attempting to see legal judgments from various perspectives simultaneously, we hoped to lay bare both the raw power of law and its ‘real-world’ effects, as well as the tools and techniques at its core that might be open to reworking. Keywords: aesthetic; art; artists; case; decision; feminist; judges; judgments; justice; kennedy; law; legal; making; perspectives; power; process; project; sfjp; students; university; ways; women; work
• Pulling the Thread of Decertification: What Challenges are Raised by the Proposal to Reform Legal Gender Status? by Cooper, Davina ; Emerton, Robyn (2020) - This could render gender status illegal or, at least, beyond state law’s regulatory structure, its terms of recognition or gaze.[footnoteRef:15] A strong version of decertification, in the case of sex/ gender, could lead state law to withdraw from providing remedies for discrimination, from collecting data on gender-based inequalities, and from allowing gender terms to publicly animate services, organisations, policy decisions, and so on.[footnoteRef:16] Rather than abolishing legal gender status, it involves diversifying gender categories to reflect (in more, or less, open ways) people’s own self-identifications. Keywords: act; bodies; categories; concerns; cooper; decertification; equality; feminist; gender; gendered; issue; journal; law; people; politics; power; reform; representation; sex; social; spaces; state; terms; women
• Working Decertification, Sensing Reproduction by Fletcher, Ruth (2020) - In reflecting on the work of gender transition as social reproduction, they make visible the work that members of the trans community do for each other, and for the world at large, in making transition liveable. From social reproduction feminism to the women’s strike, in T. Bhattacharya ed. Keywords: feminist; flexibility; gender; reproduction; women; work
• The Challenge of Same Sex Provision: How Many Girls Does a Girls' School Need? by Renz, Flora (2020) - The article uses the example of single sex schools to consider two key questions regarding potential reforms in this area. [4: Although most schools could more accurately be described as “single-gender”, in the sense that they often prioritise students’ gender identity over their legal sex as registered on their birth certificate, I am using the term “single-sex” as this is the terminology primarily used by educators and policy experts in this area, although school policies tend to refer to “gender”.] Keywords: act; binary; community; education; equality; gender; girls; inclusion; law; policies; pupils; schools; sex; spaces; students; trans; women
• Taking Public Responsibility for Gender: When Personal Identity and Institutional Feminist Politics Meet by Cooper, Davina (2020) - Conclusion This essay has adopted a broad conception of gender’s public life to argue for its recentring within gender politics against the contemporary tendency to approach gender as an intimate property of the self.[footnoteRef:27] This public recentring is not because individuals’ experiences of gender are unimportant – in fact, the reverse. Gender as private identity Accounts of gender as self-determined (or self-identified) routinely treat gender as something that is, and should be respected as, “deeply personal” (Davis 2014: Keywords: bodies; cooper; decertification; equality; feminist; gender; gendered; identity; law; legal; norms; people; politics; power; public; responsibility; self; sex; state; ways; women
• The Introduction of “Anti-Racist Legislation” in the Greek Legal Order: Political Strategies, Legalised Violence and the Formal Protection of Gender Identity. by Kasapidou, Roussa (2021) - Walter Benjamin’s problematisation of legal violence comes to mind here, calling us to consider the ways in which the law legitimises its own violence, thus allowing its character as violent to recede from view (Benjamin [1920] 1979). Judith Butler notes that “in Benjamin’s view, legal violence regularly renames its own violent character as justifiable coercion or legitimate force, but these terms sanitise the violence at issue” (Butler 2016: 40.48). Keywords: article; athens; carastathis; crime; crisis; dawn; eds; european; filippidis; gender; government; greece; greek; hate; human; identity; international; introduction; january; law; legislation; level; new; order; police; protection; public; racist; rights; state; trans; transgender; violence; watch; women; και; της
• Feminism Then and Now by Kumar, Camille; Keenan, with an Introduction by Sarah (2014) - When reflecting on the work of the ending VAWG movement, some thoughts came to my mind: The raised profile of violence against women issues has its positive outcomes, such as funding for services, however it has also led to the competitive tendering of services, and we are faced with corporates like G4S winning contracts for sexual and domestic violence services, at the expense of women organising. Eki is a trafficking survivor and had insecure immigration status. Keywords: eki; feminism; violence; women

• Gender and the Idea of Labour Law by Conaghan, Joanne (2014) - Arthurs’ conclusions on this matter are ambivalent, acknowledging at one and the same time both the historical specificity of labour law: ’Labour law’ is labour law because within a particular configuration of historical circumstances we choose to apply that particular taxonomical label to a body of rules, a cluster of professional practices, and a field of scholarship (ibid, 16) and its uniqueness and importance: Similarly, Brian Langille, in embracing an account of labour law anchored by a principle of maximizing human freedom, comments: This is an account which is much deeper and broader than the old received wisdom about the scope and purpose of labour law … if we see labour law as underwritten by the idea of human freedom, we not only have a set of reasons for traditional labour law – but also for non-contractual approaches to work relations (informality, for example) and for other non-traditional labour law subjects (unpaid work, education, child care, and so on (Langille 2011, 114). Keywords: davidov; gender; guy; idea; labour; langille; law; oup; oxford; work
• Judith Butler, Who’s Afraid of Gender? (New York: Penguin Books, 2024) by Deng, Jiaheng (2025) - By proclaiming that the right to self-determination of gender is an illegitimate exercise of freedom, an overreach from fake women, and a sex denial by trans and queer individuals, gender critical feminists generate fear and repression in people. So, the only way out, for Butler, is to align the fight for gender freedoms and rights with the criticism of capitalism and to articulate the freedoms we strive for as collective objectives. Keywords: body; butler; fear; feminists; gender; movement; sex; vulnerability
• 'For Women Scotland' and the CJEU's conceptualisation of sex discrimination by Mulder, Jule (2025) - 55-57 how the CJEU considered discrimination arising from gender reassignment as falling within the scope of sex discrimination given that it is a fundamental human right, and how this led to the modification of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 to include gender reassignment discrimination (see The Sex Discrimination (Gender Reassignment) Regulations 1999). Indeed, what was once celebrated as making rights visible may in the post-Brexit era encourage the development of overly technical definitions that are void of context, create blind spots, and significantly reduce the effectiveness of sex discrimination law. _____________________________________________________________________________________ 20 _____________________________________________________________________________________ 19 Keywords: discrimination; gender; sex
• The FWS ruling: Legal simplicity or sport complexity? by Patel, Seema (2025) - If the Supreme Court ruling is applied broadly to sport, there is a risk that the autonomy of sport bodies is prioritised over fundamental rights of trans female athletes. Some isolated political opinions, such as ministerial calls for the exclusion of trans-females from female sports, have lacked a foundation in robust evidence and risked politicising a sensitive and complex issue. Keywords: gender; ruling; sex; sport
• Ambiguity, Entanglement, Equality by van Marle, Karin (2025) - My contention is that the main thing that is lacking in how courts and much of the scholarship on substantive equality approach equality, is ambiguity. Drawing on De Beauvoir and the extent to which substantive equality scholarship hasn’t relied on her insights, I contemplate the question whether and how ambiguity could come into the picture. Keywords: ambiguity; beauvoir; difference; entanglement; equality; freedom; gender; jurisprudence; work
• Illusions of Post-Feminism, Ghosts of Gender and the Discourses of Law by McNeilly, Kathryn (2012) - This transmission, centring around an emphasis on gender neutrality, encourages the invisibility of material operations of gender in the law and the discursive reinsertion of traditional gender stereotypes to the detriment of women as legal subjects. This sexual neutrality has evolved to assume the form of gender neutrality in the “post-equality” era. Keywords: feminist; gender; gendered; ireland; law; london; post; violence
• Intimate Governmentalities, the Latin American Left, and the Decolonial Turn by Lind, Amy (2012) - Like in Honduras, in countries that have shifted to the left at the state level (e.g., Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela), many activists and critical scholars have pointed out the multiple processes taking place simultaneously, and as part of this, the ongoing contradictions among the goals of social movements and those of socialist states. As I have followed the debates within social movements and in the constitutional assembly process, a few key disjunctures stand out, including the following: (1) the well-known disjuncture between the turn to the left and the decolonial turn; (2) a lack of analysis of the governance of intimacy (Lind 2010a) and biopolitics in both leftist and decolonial accounts of “another world”; and (3) decolonial vs. liberal challenges posed by activists in the remaking of Latin American nations. Keywords: constitution; gender; left; movements; state; turn
• Introduction: Gender Equality and Othering in the Swedish Welfare State by Drakopoulou, Maria; Davies, Margaret (2012) - It instead lies in its promoting an understanding of specifics of the feminist engagement with and critique of Swedish gender equality law and policy through contributors’ discussions of major themes of western feminism - motherhood, labour, immigration, disability and sexual exploitation. The discursive space opened by the critical engagement with the history and current state of Swedish gender equality law and policy, should not be easily dismissed as either just another example of the same or as something of a curiosity, a place to meet a way of thinking from a different part of the world. Keywords: equality; gender; law
• Introduction to the Special Issue on the Future of Legal Gender: Exploring the Feminist Politics of Decertification by Cooper, Davina; Grabham, Emily; Renz, Flora (2020) - This collection of articles and commentaries collectively explores critical and interdisciplinary approaches to the future of legal gender, but they do not take a single common path. Whilst there is now a very established and vibrant field of feminist legal research in Britain, social attitudes to legal gender are under-researched, as Peel and Newman point out. Keywords: decertification; feminist; flag; gender; law; project; reform; research; sex
• Introduction: Gendering Labour Law by Fudge, Judy; Grabham, Emily (2014) - She concludes by suggesting that the traditional model of labour law designed for the formal industrial sector needs to be reconceptualized, especially as the postcolonial Indian state re-engineers labour laws to make regulation more ‘flexible.’ A feminist approach to labour law also stretches the range of theoretical frames and methods used to study the relationship between law and work, as feminists tend to embrace a catholic approach to methodology and theory. Keywords: feminist; gender; labour; law; work; workshop
• Negotiating Binary Conceptions of Sex/Gender in a Multi-Gender World: Response to ‘The Challenge of Same-Sex Provision: How Many Girls Does a Girls’ School Need?’ by Quinan, C.L. (2020) - So perhaps girls’ schools have a benefit in empowering girls, but in looking at the full picture by including boys’ school, this single-sex focus might also translate into further entrenchment of gender norms, toxic masculinity, and the social and institutional fixity of binary gender. In terms of structural change, it is this that would be worth devoting attention to on a societal level in order to give us tools to combat transphobia and cissexism as well as general micro- and macro-aggressions built into any system or institution that is reliant, explicitly or implicitly, on binary gender – which is to say, every institution in one way or another. Keywords: gender; girls; schools; sex; trans
• Doing Feminist Research in Contested Moments: Commentary on ‘Gender’s Wider Stakes: Lay Attitudes to Legal Gender Reform’ by Browne, Kath (2020) - Feminist research has for decades been premised on including marginalised voices and contesting the researcher/researched power relationships (for example, Smith 1988; Browne 2003; McDowell 1992; Moss 1993; 2002; Stanley and Wise 1993).[footnoteRef:2] Many feminist research principles then focused on research as a politicised site that seeks to work towards empowerment and inclusion of the most vulnerable and marginalised, through socially engaged research that is critical of hegemonic and disempowering relations. In other words, they are often women with whom feminist research would seek to include and empower. Keywords: feminist; gender; paper; research; rights; trans
• Cisgenderism’s Move Beyond Anxious Defence: Commentary on ‘Gender’s Wider Stakes: Lay Attitudes to Legal Gender Reform’ by Hunter, Shona (2020) - There is crossover with debates on the nature of white defence in my own field, where the relationship between defence and desire is understood to be important to the systemic shoring up of whiteness as the unspoken ‘master signifier’ in the discourse of race (Seshadri-Crooks 2000). Shona Hunter Cisgenderism’s Move Beyond Anxious Defence __________________________________________________________________________________ feminists@law Vol 10, No 2 (2020) __________________________________________________________________________________ Cisgenderism’s Move Beyond Anxious Defence: Commentary on ‘Gender’s Wider Stakes: Lay Attitudes to Legal Gender Reform’ Keywords: defence; gender; newman; peel; race; whiteness
• A Responsibility to Representational Justice: A Few Notes on Reading Davina Cooper’s ‘Taking Responsibility for Gender’ by Madhok, Sumi (2020) - If gender is political, intersectional, dynamic and located, then taking up responsibility for institutional gender is to produce an institutional response to dynamic intersectional gender relations that aligns with representational gender justice. And, while influential feminist texts have insightfully pointed to the difficulties of turning to the law for instituting gender justice and rights, it is also the case that gendered and sexual rights are fundamental to a life of liberty and dignity. Keywords: feminist; gender; intersectional; justice; responsibility
• Doing Due Diligence on Gender? A Reflection on Davina Cooper’s ‘Taking Responsibility for Gender’ by Munro, Vanessa E. (2020) - They include – amongst other things – a responsibility to represent faithfully one’s unique experiences, create space for others to articulate alternative accounts, challenge institutions that inhibit recognition of those experiences, subvert scenes in which gender norms are staged and performed, demand resources to realise alternative scenes, or hold institutions to account for the visions of gender they endorse. As is ably demonstrated across this special issue, although it is not always a simple matter to do so, with contested questions remaining as to what precisely a demand for recognition entails, there is a compelling case in contemporary society for respecting personal experiences of gender identity in all their complexity. Keywords: cooper; gender; responsibility
• Exploring the Textual Alchemy of Legal Gender: Experimental Statutes and the Message in the Medium by Grabham, Emily (2020) - Second, drawing on this research, the article explores what the Future of Legal Gender project might consider and do when drafting an experimental statute to decertify legal gender. The article concludes by setting out some issues, opportunities, and challenges that the project may face when drafting an experimental statute decertifying legal gender. Keywords: act; drafters; drafting; english; feminist; gender; interpretation; language; law; legislation; masculine; person; rule; sex; singular; statute; techniques; use; way
• Response to ‘Exploring the Textual Alchemy of Legal Gender’ by Pottage, Alain (2020) - Even if I am wrong in suggesting that the technique of legislative drafting originated with the technique of drafting settlements, even if the kinship is only analogical, the analogy illuminates one sense in which legislative drafting techniques ‘have helped usher in specific legal and textual formations with attached concepts and ontologies that have travelled far and combined with other long-lasting bureaucratic and wider social understandings of gender’ (Grabham, this issue). With legislative drafting in mind, what is relevant here is the implication of gender in grammatical technique. Keywords: authorship; drafting; gender; time
• Gender Inclusive Legislative Drafting in English: A Drafter’s Response to Emily Grabham by Xanthaki, Helen (2020) - In fact, one could argue that in the environment of a GIL statute book, gender specific language would have even more impact in drawing the users’ attention to the specific position of women in gender specific legislative texts. From the point of view of substantive law, gender inclusive legislation expresses to a fuller extent the constitutional principle of equality in the eyes of the law: everyone, not just men and women, is equal before the eyes of the law. Keywords: drafting; expression; gender; inclusivity; language; law; legislation; office; policy; regulation; sex
• Gender’s Wider Stakes: Lay Attitudes to Legal Gender Reform by Peel, Elizabeth ; Newman, Hannah JH (2020) - (Please select at least one answer) *required single ☐ co-habiting ☐ non-cohabiting partner ☐ married ☐ civil partnership ☐ divorced ☐ separated ☐ widowed ☐ polyamorous ☐ other (please specify) ☐ prefer not to say ☐ a. Keywords: attitudes; binary; birth; cisgenderism; female; gender; identity; non; people; project; research; respondents; self; sex; status; survey; trans; ☐ a.; ☐ ☐
• The “Granular and Quotidian, Dispersed and Tentacular”: Critical Reflections on CJLS Special Issue 35(2) – On the Margins of Trans Legal Change by Calder, Gillian (2022) - [13: For a discussion of non-action as a “missed opportunity” in the UK see Simon Murphy and Libby Brooks, “UK government drops gender self-identification plan for trans people” (September 2020), The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/sep/22/uk-government-drops-gender-self-identification-plan-for-trans-people.] Canadians, in particular, sit at a unique historical legal moment that for the most part is wrapped in formal equality. My aim, in this review, is to take up the challenge posed by Singer and Katri in their foreword – to turn a critical, legal and emotional gaze towards trans people at the margins,[footnoteRef:32] and tease out of these articles, diverse as they are, some common threads and themes. Keywords: gender; human; ibid; identity; issues; law; note; people; rights; singer; study; supra; supra note; trans; volume; work; youth

• Feminist Futures by van Marle, Karin (2011) - However, to my mind Constable’s argument has important implications for feminist research and the future of feminist research and I will take out only what I regard as the most pertinent for my tentative suggestions concerning feminist legal research. Feminist legal research should be concerned with this ‘other’, with the possibilities of a world that remains, with other kinds of subjectivity. Keywords: constable; feminist; law
• Social Reproduction and Financial Extractivism : Third Annual Lecture in the Laws of Social Reproduction, 16 September 2022 by Gago, Verónica; Mason Deese, Liz (2023) - The increase in household debt for basic goods, as a consequence of cuts to incomes and also the emergence of new debts (for public services and emergencies); · The increase in debt for rent (either rental debts or taking out debt to not have to rent) and a greater vulnerability to eviction due to the accumulation of debt. Or, in other words, I am interested in the strike as a way to read and confront how household debt is colonizing social reproduction. Keywords: debt; economies; feminist; household; labor; pandemic; reproduction; strike; work
• The Forgotten Foundations of Feminist Legal Scholarship: Introduction by Drakopoulou, Maria; Hunter, Rosemary (2025) - Under the title “The Forgotten Foundations of Feminist Legal Scholarship, Part I (1970-1985)” the workshop sought to understand why, unlike in other fields in the humanities and social sciences, contemporary feminist legal scholarship appears to have no consolidated history and almost no canonical texts; and why individual studies, however radical or sophisticated, appear situated only in the ‘feminist present’, with legal feminism’s past appearing essentially void of any heritage deemed worthy of being handed down. It is as if what credits feminist legal scholarship with contemporaneity is precisely the erasure of these earlier texts from its horizon. Keywords: feminist; texts
• Biopolitics and the Female Reproductive Body as the New Subject of Law by Cerwonka, Allaine; Loutfi, Anna (2011) - On the other hand, one might add that the influence of Foucault on feminist jurisprudence and feminist legal theory has been much less pronounced, in spite of the obvious value of Foucault’s work for critical legal theory more generally. One probable reason for this is the uncanny resemblance of Foucault’s ‘sexless subject’ to the abstract sexless subject of law which feminist legal theory has been tirelessly critiquing since its inception (giving rise to feminist works with titles such as: “unspeakable subjects”, “the hidden gender of law”, “sexing the subject of law”, and so on). Keywords: agamben; feminist; life; theory
• What's Feminist About Open Access? A Relational Approach to Copyright in the Academy by Craig, Carys J.; Turcotte, Joseph F.; Coombe, Rosemary J. (2011) - Open access law journals have a unique role to play in hosting such dialogues, highlighting the limits of intellectual property frameworks and their disempowering effects for the relational practices of creativity and authorship that characterize the way digital technologies might ideally function in human worlds of sociality. Feminist legal theory and open access movements are approached generally in order to highlight their points of intersection, which is not to deny the more nuanced dimensions of these critical movements. Keywords: access; author; authorship; copyright; feminist; information; internet; knowledge; law; legal; new; open; property; public; rights; self; social; theory
• Research Note: Bingo and Feminist Political Economy by Bedford, Kate (2014) - However I hope that by relating the research to these themes I can gesture to some ways in which the bingo project may draw from, and contribute to, other efforts to gender discussions of labour, law, and risk regulation. Section 1: Project Overview and Methods Many scholars have analyzed the changing nature of risk regulation in contemporary market economies (Adam, Beck and van Loon 2000; Giddens 1999; Taylor-Gooby and Zinn 2006; Mohun 2013). Keywords: bingo; charity; economy; feminist; gambling; labour; law; project; regulation; research; risk; state; taking; volunteers; welfare; work
• Research Note: Rethinking Feminist Engagements with the State and Wage Labour by Alessandrini, Donatella (2014) - Indeed, the fact that the whole program remains an institution of wage labour requires us to consider the consequences of supporting such a comprehensive macroeconomic policy (Antonopoulos, 2007). For these reasons, rather than engaging with the state and taking up wage labour, they thought it important to think of arrangements able to promote (non-capitalist) processes of valorisation. Keywords: activities; elr; feminist; labour; point; program; reproduction; state; value; wage; work

• The Strange Temporalities of Work-Life Balance Law by Grabham, Emily (2014) - As a route to balancing ‘work' and ‘life', the UK’s right to request flexible work contains much of interest for a feminist analysis of how legal temporalities are created and sustained. Furthermore, this documentary route to achieving flexible work as a precursor to achieving balance is an interesting mix of private law and legislated right. Keywords: balance; care; form; labour; law; life; request; right; time; work; working
• Managing a Professional Identity as Abortion Care Providers in a Time of Uncertainty by Pereira, Hannah (2022) - Abortion doctors, I suggest, are unlikely to take such a grave assault on their professional identity and wish to treat women as moral actors with autonomy and healthcare needs that should be met, without resistance. These laws have constructed abortion doctors as gatekeepers and guardians of morality who are in control of who can have a legal abortion, creating tensions between the legal framework and the practice of abortion since 1967. Keywords: abortion; doctors; england; law; medical; work
• Introduction to the Symposium - Decarcerating Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: New Writing on Disability, Abolition and the Limits of Rights by Ben-Moshe, Liat; Steele, Linda (2023) - [3: In the USA, see Jasmine Harris, ‘Disability Law on the Frontlines’ (2020) 106 Cornell Law Review Online. [83: Jamelia N Morgan, ‘Caged In: The Devastating Harms of Solitary Confinement on Prisoners with Physical Disabilities’ (2017-2018) 24 Buffalo Human Rights Law Review 81; Jamelia N Morgan, ‘Policing Under Disability Law’ (2021) 73 Stanford Law Review 1401; Jamelia N Morgan, ‘Reflections on Representing Incarcerated People with Disabilities: Ableism in Prison Reform Litigation’ (2019) 96(4) Keywords: abolition; analysis; ben; court; critique; deinstitutionalisation; disability; diversion; health; incarceration; justice; law; moshe; people; press; prison; state; steele; violence; work
• The Law of Social Reproduction by Marella, Maria Rosaria (2023) - This is why hereinafter I will focus on unpaid family care work. Conclusion For the time being, the shadow of patriarchy keeps on looming over; the unequal distribution of unpaid family care work between genders has not significantly changed in households with waged caregivers: the employer-employee relationship is basically between women, and the traditional family model continues to shape familial relations in terms of care work distribution. Keywords: care; family; law; market; reproduction; unpaid; work
• Social Reproduction and Depletion by Rai, Shirin M (2023) - I use the concept of social reproduction rather than care to examine the gendered regimes of labour that underpin the maintenance of life. I understand social reproduction as the work of biological reproduction (including reproducing labour). Keywords: care; depletion; harm; rai; reproduction; work
• How Can The Sexual Contract Help Us to Understand the Relationship Between Prostitution and Domestic Service? by Weiss, Catherine (2018) - This relationship between prostitution and domestic service is highlighted by researchers taking the ‘sex work position’ on prostitution (Jeffreys, 2009), but such approaches hardly recognise relations of domination among the sexes. On the other hand, researchers taking an abolitionist position on prostitution, who do recognise relations of domination among the sexes, tend to ignore or deny the existence of any link between prostitution and domestic service. Keywords: prostitution; work
• Modern Workplaces and Modern Families: Revising the Work-Family Concept by Weldon-Johns, Michelle (2013) - The paper argues that government policy on balancing work and family lives needs to move away from its focus on traditional male breadwinner and dual breadwinner families to embrace a wider understanding of the family. Michelle Weldon-Johns, 'Modern Workplaces and Modern Families: Revising the Work-Family Concept' This is an audio recording of Michelle Weldon-Johns's paper delivered as part of the 'Families and Work' theme at the SLSA Annual Conference, University of York, 27 March 2013. Keywords: work
• Passing the Buck: Unpaid Care, Precarious Work and the Children and Families Bill 2013 by Grabham, Emily (2013) - Dr Emily Grabham is a Senior Lecturer in the Kent Law School, University of Kent. Emily Grabham, 'Passing the Buck: Unpaid Care, Precarious Work and the Children and Families Bill 2013' This is an audio recording of Emily Grabham's paper delivered as part of the 'Families and Work' theme at the SLSA Annual Conference, University of York, 27 March 2013. Keywords: work
• 'Don't Read the Comments!' Reflections on Writing and Publishing Feminist Socio-Legal Research as a Young Scholar by Cunliffe, Emma (2013) - In Australia, coincidence evidence against Tracey Phillips had been excluded by a NSW Supreme Court Judge, resulting in a withdrawal of charges,[footnoteRef:10] and charges had been laid against Carol Matthey for killing four children.[footnoteRef:11] Kathleen Folbigg had, of course, been convicted and sentenced for killing her four children. [15: I have written more about these concerns in Emma Cunliffe, “(This is not a) Story: Using Court Records to Explore Judicial Narratives in R. v. Kathleen Folbigg” (2007) 27 Australian Feminist Law Journal 71 and with Angela Cameron in “Writing the Circle: Judicially Convened Sentencing Circles and the Textual Organization of Criminal Justice” (2007) 19 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 1.] Keywords: cases; children; court; folbigg; kathleen; law; media; medicine; motherhood; murder; trial; work
• Preface by Stewart, Ann (2014) - This chapter appears in an edited collection which ‘focuses on intimate, embodied and sexualized labour in body work and sex work, exploring empirically and theoretically the labour process, workplace relations, regulation and resistance in some of the many work sites that together make up these types of work. My chapter explores the way in which two examples of body work – the labour involved in caring for the vulnerable elderly and in providing commercial sex – are regulated. Keywords: body; work
• Legal Constructions of Body Work by Stewart, Ann (2014) - Social care workers (including personal assistants) undertaking body work are now located primarily within the private sector (70 per cent). This individual is being repositioned within a social market as an inde- pendent consumer of care services, as someone who chooses what they want rather than being the recipient of state-defined provision. Keywords: care; contract; employment; labour; law; market; power; relationships; rights; services; work; workers

• Critical Disability Studies and the State by Wadiwel, Dinesh (2023) - In this context, Ben-Moshe explores the limitations of the legal avenues for disability movements, arguing that “litigation and rights discourse draw on the state in fixing social ills of its own creation” (Ben-Moshe, 2020: 7.41). As above, both Ben-Moshe and Steele express caution about the law and its capacity to be utilised by disability movements as an agent of change. Keywords: ben; disability; state; steele; violence
• The New Communists of the Commons: 21st Century Proudhonists by Desai, Radhika (2012) - So not only are we clear that for Marx capital, fixed or otherwise, can occur only under capitalist conditions but also that it is precisely a characteristic of ‘modern economists’ and their apologia for capital that they confound the difference between stored-up past labour and capital. It was what gave the Commune that character Marx and Engels would later recognise as the dictatorship of the proletariat, the necessary instrument of the ‘withering away’ of the state as class domination and its replacement by freely associated producers which is communism. Keywords: badiou; capital; capitalism; class; commons; communism; general; hardt; labour; marx; negri; new; politics; production; property; society; state; value; žižek
• The Neo-Constitutionalism of the Latin American Left: The Case of the Resistance Front of Honduras by Mendoza, Breny (2012) - I suspect, though, that the Constitution, being primarily a legal document, is attributed social powers that it probably is not able to deliver. Of course, it is still too early to say anything definitive about the resistance movement in relation to its internal dynamics and its political project (it is very much still under construction), as well as about its potential to enact similar transformations to those achieved by other social movements in South America. Keywords: constitution; coup; honduras; law; left; movement; people; power; resistance; social; state
• Of Neo-Constitutionalisms, Lefts and (De)Colonial Struggles: Thoughts from the Andes in Conversation with Breny Mendoza by Walsh, Catherine (2012) - Final Reflections Again taking up the concerns expressed in Breny’s paper, the issue should not be one of simply “taking State power,” whether that be by the “Left” or by, in the case of Honduras, the National Resistance Popular Front. That is, projects in which social movements do not become the State (thus losing their essence and agency as social movements), nor are eliminated by the State (as Ecuador is endeavoring to do), but are instead active participants in pushing what Breny refers to as “political methodologies.” Keywords: assembly; breny; constitutionalism; ecuador; left; power; state
• Response to Julieta Lemaitre, Amy Lind, and Catherine Walsh by Mendoza, Breny (2012) - It can make use of the judicial machinery to quell any controversial political problem that threatens the matters of State power. In this book, Maguire makes a compelling case about how the United States of America’s State formation process relied on a view of the law that separated it from any moral or ethical consideration. Keywords: form; honduras; law; moment; new; state; war
• Power and Normality in Paratransit – Individual Autonomy in Welfare State Law by Pettersson, Andreas (2012) - Another important characteristic is that entitlements to services and benefits are based on citizenship, such that the communitarian funding of social welfare reflects and reinforces the idea of social citizenship (Sainsbury 1996:31–32). Special transport services cater to the needs of people who, for certain reasons, cannot utilize general public transport. Keywords: disabilities; disability; fraser; individual; law; people; services; social; state; swedish; transport; welfare; welfare state
• Taking on the State: An African Perspective by Manji, Ambreena (2020) - Related to this is a second point about locating law reform projects as primarily directed at legislative reform placed in some future time. Let me merge this first observation with my second point about why we tend to locate law reform projects, as this project seems to have done, as primarily directed at legislative reform placed in some future time. Keywords: law; project; reform; state

• Limiting the Impact of Dobbs: The Potential for International Solidarity by Davis, Martha (2022) - The text of the Mississippi law at issue in Dobbs began with the assertion that U.S. abortion law was out of step with the rest of the industrialised world and was instead comparable to the laws of China and North Korea – a dubious claim that, at the very least, ignored the abortion laws in the Netherlands, New Zealand, Iceland, Canada, Colombia, and the United Kingdom. While it would not be fair to say that U.S. abortion rights activists were ever complacent about the right to abortion, there was certainly a tendency to rely on the courts as the means to protect abortion access. Keywords: abortion; rights; u.s
• Roe v. Wade: The Religious Response by Turtle, Kellie; Bloomer, Fiona (2022) - Thomas was also hosted at Parliament Buildings by TUV politician Jim Allister and preached outside Craigavon Area hospital at a protest organised by local anti-abortion activists.[footnoteRef:2] Aside from these fringe groups, mainstream Protestant churches also oppose the new legal framework for abortion access, with the Presbyterian church particularly vocal in their engagement in the public arena.[footnoteRef:3] [accessed 23 September 2022] Doan, A.E. (2022) Kansas’ vote to maintain abortion access shows the state is less red than many think. Keywords: abortion; bloomer; faith; reproductive; rights; roe; support
• Critical Pathways to Disability Decarceration: Reading Liat Ben-Moshe and Linda Steele by Wildeman, Sheila (2023) - It also points out tensions among a more assimilationist variant of disability deinstitutionalization (coding disability as white, middle class and heteronormative) and a more radically intersectional variant wherein disability (and/or debility, as advanced by Jasbir Puar)[footnoteRef:21] is denied the legal legitimation of disability rights. Today the numbers are back to pre-pandemic levels and institution-wide lockdowns are more frequent and prolonged than before.[footnoteRef:9] Conditions in disability institutions have likewise hit new lows.[footnoteRef:10] Yet again and again the critiques and praxis proper to prison abolitionism and disability deinstitutionalization pull apart. Keywords: ben; canada; confinement; deinstitutionalization; disability; justice; law; moshe; prison; rights; solitary
• Social Reproduction in the Realm of the Intangible by Macmillan, Fiona (2023) - Primitive Accumulation and the Legal Sacralisation of Property Relations The processes by which social reproduction has been marginalised and sublimated in regimes concerned with the allocation of property rights, including intellectual property rights, is a consequence of the relationship between cycles of capital accumulation and the development of legal institutions. [1: *Birkbeck, University of London, UK; University of Roma Tre, Italy; University of Technology Sydney, Australia: f.macmillan@bbk.ac.uk ] Introduction The discourse of intellectual property rights - the arguments about them, for them and against them - demonstrate an almost total marginalisation of questions of social reproduction. Keywords: accumulation; property; relations; reproduction; rights; social
• How Can a Growing Use of Clare's Law Help Us Meet Human Rights Obligations to Victims of Domestic Abuse? by Grace, Jamie (2024) - The relevant margin of appreciation, now a doctrine to be found in a reformed recital to the ECHR,[footnoteRef:38] gives a degree of latitude to domestic police services in their handling of domestic abuse cases. Domestic abuse disclosure schemes: Problems with policy, regulation and legality, Springer Nature, 2021.] Keywords: abuse; article; case; disclosure; dvds; echr; ibid; law; police; protection; rights; risk; victims; violence
• Persons, Property, and Community by Davies, Margaret (2012) - And once again, there can be a startling lack of legal clarity over both the things which can be the subject of property rights, and what property means in essence. As with the person, there are huge controversies over what counts as property and what property rights actually entail. Keywords: commons; community; gray; human; law; locke; ownership; people; person; property; public; rights; self; things
• Notes on Contributors by -, - (2012) - Catherine Walsh is Professor and Director of the doctoral program in Latin American Cultural Studies at the Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar in Quito, Ecuador. She has published a book in Spanish on the Honduran feminist movement, Sintiéndose mujer, pensándose (Editorial Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 1996); and she is co-editor of Rethinking Latin American Feminisms (Latin American Studies Program, Cornell University, Volume 5, 2000). Keywords: latin; law; rights; university
• Human Rights Law and Indigenous Women by Watson, Irene (2011) - The capacity for human rights laws to redress power imbalance is the concern of my research. Human rights jurisprudence would have us believe that all people are accorded the same rights; there should be no discrimination on any grounds - including ethnicity, race and sex - against anybody. Keywords: rights
• End of Trump's Rule Will Not End the Assault on Reproductive Rights in Africa by Griffith, Saoyo Tabitha (2020) - Saoyo Tabitha Griffith Trump’s assault on reproductive rights in Africa _____________________________________________________________________________________ feminists@law Vol 10, No 2 (2020) _____________________________________________________________________________________ End of Trump’s rule will not end the assault on reproductive rights in Africa Saoyo Tabitha Griffith0F[footnoteRef:1]* Keywords: africa; health; rights

• Introduction to the Special Section by Duggan, Marian; Barlow, Charlotte (2024) - The articles in this Special Section offer the first comprehensive and nuanced analysis of how domestic abuse disclosure schemes are operating and experienced by those involved with them, from victims and specialists through to policy makers and the statutory sector. The contributors are all engaged in research exploring domestic abuse disclosure schemes, adopting a feminist socio-legal approach to examining the nature and impact of this type of policy. Keywords: abuse; disclosure; law; police; schemes; violence
• Visualising Justice: Teaching Sexual Violence and Law Through Engagement with Artwork by Godden-Rasul, Nikki; Sikka, Tina; Jackson, Jayne (2025) - As such, academic research has begun to analyse the impact of art, indicating that it can be used to educate members of society about the nature of sexual violence as part of prevention work, and to challenge commonly held stereotypes about sexual violence victims and perpetrators, and myths about the causes of sexual violence (Doherty, 2020; Carline and Gunby, 2023).  It could be used to challenge law students’ sometimes overly-legal way of looking at problems as disconnected from subjectivity and emotion. Keywords: art; asking; autoethnography; education; exhibition; law; research; students; violence
• Violence and Neo-constitutionalism: A Comment on Breny Mendoza’s Text by Lemaitre, Julieta (2012) - But they do limit the available choices, and generally exclude political violence, and often personal violence, as one of them. A movement that sincerely calls for a Constituent Assembly as its main goal, an Assembly that is elected peacefully and where all groups, even enemies, can be represented, is probably a movement that eschews political violence and values dialogue. Keywords: circumstances; individuals; violence
• Leigh Goodmark, Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence, University of California Press, 2018 by Porter, Antonia (2019) - In chapter one, Goodmark briefly outlines the drawbacks of the state reliance on criminalization: the approach absolves the state from having to confront the underpinning structural arrangements that incubate the offending behaviour; it disproportionately and negatively impacts already marginalized women (‘women of color’, for example, are less likely to voluntarily engage the criminal justice system); incarceration reduces the life chances of the ex-prisoner and impacts on families, ‘deforming’ the lives of those connected to the prisoner (17); criminalization does little to prevent domestic violence and its huge costs still afford little protection to the intended beneficiaries. Thirdly, Goodmark would welcome community responses and organization as a means of holding perpetrators accountable (including through restorative justice) and as an effective way of shifting community norms that tolerate intimate partner violence. Keywords: goodmark; justice; violence
• The Archaeology of the Courts' Domestic Violence Discourse: Discourse as a Knowledge-Sustaining System by Ohana, Natalie (2020) - Despite being seemingly insignificant, the second sentence – “there have undoubtedly been incidents of violence between them” – is in fact a statement which represents the a-priori knowledge of the discourse: domestic violence is an episodic phenomenon, physical violence is seen as its core. In this process of growing acknowledgement of the harm it inflicts in intimate relationships, coercive control is being inserted into existing discourses around domestic violence. Keywords: change; control; court; discourse; everyday; harm; judgments; knowledge; meaning; priori; violence; violence discourse

• On predetermining outcomes by Zanghellini, Aleardo (2025) - Like all clear-cut legal rules, this policy choice is suboptimal, but that does not make it inherently irrational; and so, neither would it be inherently irrational for relevant sex-based provisions in the Equality Act to assume the understanding of legal sex set out in the 2004 Act. The Scottish Ministers, the UK Supreme Court held that ‘sex’ and related concepts in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological sex. Keywords: act; court; sex

• Measuring Labour and Rethinking Value by Adkins, Lisa (2014) - Measuring Labour and Rethinking Value Lisa Adkins* In this lecture, part of feminists@law's series on 'Labour, Value and Precarity in the Age of Austerity', Lisa Adkins considers the form of labour which has been at the very heart of feminist theorizations of immaterial labour, namely domestic labour. She considers transformations to this labour in the context of financialization, and in particular the direct links which are being forged between domestic labour and the creation of financial value. Keywords: labour
• International Economic Law and the Hidden Abode of Social Reproduction by Alessandrini, Donatella (2023) - This leads to a fourth and final insight I take from the tradition of social reproduction work I have been drawing from, and that’s the fact that social reproduction has always exceeded production, value extraction and capital accumulation, with pockets of non-capitalist or more-than-capitalist forms of economies always in existence. That is, as an historically and spatially contingent way of ordering and disciplining labour processes around the world, especially when there are no central coordinating mechanisms like the ones characterising planned economies. Keywords: capital; capitalism; labour; law; reproduction; social; value; world
• Mobility, Social Reproduction and Exploitation: A Critical Legal Perspective on the Tension between Capitalism and Freedom of Movement by Rigo, Enrica (2023) - The entanglements between mobility and social reproduction A wide range of literature has placed social reproduction at the centre of migration processes. By building on these approaches, the literature on gender and migration has shown how female migrant workers play an essential role in the reproduction of contemporary societies on a global scale (Kofman and Raghuram, 2015), while the lens of social reproduction has been used to unveil gender and class hierarchies in the sexual division of labour as well as in global care chains (Anderson, 2000; Farris and Marchetti, 2017). Keywords: conditions; exploitation; labour; law; migration; mobility; regimes; reproduction; workers

• Introduction: Social Reproduction and the Challenge to Legal Studies by Rigo, Enrica; Alessandrini, Donatella (2023) - [2: **University of Kent, UK: D.Alessandrini@kent.ac.uk ] ‘Inserting an inherently institutional, historical and symbolic process such as that of social reproduction into the basic structure leads to radical modifications in the way the whole system is conceptualised’. In recent years feminist debates on social reproduction have included fields of interest that go far beyond domestic and gendered work. Keywords: care; law; reproduction; struggles

• Disability, Criminal Justice, and Abolition: Recognizing and Remedying Law’s Violence by Morgan, Jamelia (2023) - Indeed, as Steele emphasizes “much of” this violence “is legal violence or takes place in institutional settings where individuals have ended up by legal decisions”.[footnoteRef:9] Steele calls for a “critical disability legal pedagogy,” and argues that “[l]egal pedagogy should be an integral aspect of contesting criminalised disabled people’s carceral control and debilitation”. As Steele maintains, court diversion programs rely on and exploit disability labels as a pathway for “coercive intervention that surpasses what is otherwise possible through criminal law. Keywords: disability; law; people; steele
• Drag Sentimentality, Intimate Publics, and the Unfinished Business of Queer Constitutionalism in Thailand by Thongprasop, Paweenwat (2024) - In that case, more inclusive queer constitutionalism in Thailand can be imagined through drag intimate publics that complement the abstraction of the law. Additionally, drag intimate publics can inadvertently contribute to the commodification of queer sentimentality. Keywords: aesthetics; berlant; constitutionalism; court; drag; individuals; law; marriage; people; public; queer; space; thailand

• The Sexual Contract in Paid Care Work: Evidence from the Prosecution of Care Workers for Failures to Care by Hayes, Lydia (2018) - Reports of elder abuse by paid care workers have risen, in concert with the UK’s rampant privatisation of social care provision and increased public concern. In this paper, I explore the criminalisation of care workers in relation to elder abuse. Keywords: care

• (Re)Defining Legal Parenthood and Kinship: The Limits of Legal Change in the Finnish Child Custody Act of 2019 by Moring, Anna (2023) - As opposed to legal parents, who can independently make an agreement on custody, residence and right of access and have it confirmed by the municipal social committee, non-legal parents must go to court and obtain an order, even if all parties agree and there is no conflict. According to Sanna Koulu (2014: 97), the 1983 reform entailed two crucial shifts: first, it prioritised agreements between parents over court decisions and gave legal parents the right to make agreements that could be enforced by municipal social committees without going through the court. Keywords: access; act; child; child custody; custody; family; kinship; law; new; parent; parenthood; relationship; right; social

• The Role of the Law in the Rule of Law of the New Oligarchies: A Latin American Feminist Perspective by Mendoza, Breny (2011) - This has been the case of Venezuela, Bolivia, and Ecuador where social movements were able to grab control of state power and reissue new constitutions that recouped sovereign power to the people. These movements have a lot to teach the West and the United States in particular, as oligarchic power is becoming more entrenched in state power. Keywords: law; power

• The (non-)use of history and its significance in 'For Women Scotland' by Derry, Caroline (2025) - Instead, the legal past is omitted or flattened: reconstituted as an orderly legal progress in which common law and statute developed smoothly, needing nothing more than clarification to achieve consistency and correctness. It opens by stating, ‘[t]he common law of England & Wales did not recognise the possibility of a person becoming a different gender from their gender at birth.’ Keywords: court; law; marriage
• The Role of the European Court of Human Rights in the Protection of Women Fleeing Gender-Based Violence in their Home Countries by Querton, Christel (2017) - In the context of increasing reliance by asylum seekers and refugees on the European Court of Human Rights (‘the Court’) as a protection mechanism against return to ill-treatment, torture and persecution, examination of the Court’s approach is essential. The Role of the European Court of Human Rights in the Protection of Women Fleeing Gender-Based Violence in their Home Countries Christel Querton*  This is an audio recording of a paper given at the Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, Newcastle University, 5-7 April 2017. Keywords: court
• 'A Woman Like You': Gender, Uncertainty and Expert Opinion Evidence in the Contemporary Criminal Trial by San Roque, Mehera (2013) - But further, because of the heavy reliance on expert evidence in the case against Folbigg, and as has been made explicit in recent coverage of the case, there are other connections—in particular there are aspects of the emerging crisis in the forensic sciences that can be mapped onto this case.[footnoteRef:5] These two cases speak to the related, but also broader question of how courts manage (or fail to manage) incriminating expert evidence, and, like Folbigg, speak to the failures of the adversarial trial and safeguards to adequately manage the expert evidence in the case, and in particular the failure of the ‘safeguard’ that is prosecutorial restraint—prosecutorial obligations of fairness that are a prominent feature of the rhetoric underpinning the conduct of criminal trials in Australia.[footnoteRef:11] Keywords: appeal; case; children; court; criminal; crown; emma; evidence; expert; fact; folbigg; gilham; jury; lane; law; medicine; motherhood; murder; tedeschi; trial

• Lawful, Proportionate and Necessary? A Critical Examination of the Domestic Abuse Disclosure Scheme for Scotland by McMillan, Lesley; Tickell, Andrew (2024) - Second, we argue Police Scotland guidance should be amended accurately to reflect what we consider to be the true legal basis for the operation of the DSDAS scheme in the common law, for similar reasons. While it is likely that Police Scotland officers approach decisions about what constitutes a relationship on a case-by-case basis, we suggest alterations to the Scottish guidance are needed, to take account of and reflect the diversity of modern relationships and offer greater clarity. Keywords: abuse; act; disclosure; dsdas; guidance; information; law; police; police scotland; public; relationship; scheme; scotland; scottish
• Are Research Data a 'Common' Resource? by Mauthner, Natasha (2012) - Research data as a common resource Emergence of the idea that research data are a common resource The notion of treating research data as a common and indeed global resource appears to date back to at least the 1950s, when it was institutionally established through the formation of World Data Centers (particularly in the geophysical sciences) designed to minimise the risk of data loss and maximise data access (Shapley and Hart 1982). Research data are therefore being defined as public resources, public property, and public outputs of research: “research data will increasingly be the starting point for new research as well as a key output” (UKRDS 2009: 1; see also CARL 2009: 4). Keywords: access; data; data sharing; knowledge; material; participants; policy; practices; public; research; research data; researchers; resource; sharing
• Editorial: A Response to the LSE Event "Is Rape Different?" by Editors, The (2013) - Hewson took Reece’s point about increased risk and went further, arguing that rape victims may have a moral responsibility for being raped. In relation to the argument that the public may blame all victims of crime, Temkin stressed that there is no research that shows that other victims are as consistently blamed in the way that rape victims are. Keywords: debate; hewson; law; lse; public; rape; reece; statement; support; victims

• Introduction to the Special Section by Härkönen, Heidi (2023) - The first article, ‘(Re)Defining Legal Parenthood and Kinship: The Limits of Legal Change in the Finnish Child Custody Act of 2019’ by Anna Moring, examines the changes in legal understandings of kinship, parenthood and family in the process of redrafting the Act on Child Custody and Right of Access in Finland. The last article in the collection, ‘Marginalisations and Redefinitions of Kinship in Contemporary Cuba’ by Heidi Härkönen, explores shifts in understandings of kinship and experiences of marginality amongst low-income Cubans. Keywords: article; forms; kinship; marginality; margins; relations

• Time for Reflection? Considering the "Past", "Present" and "Future" of Feminist Legal Scholarship: A Roundtable Discussion by Bhandar, Brenna; Chryssostalis, Julia; Loizidou, Elena; Richardson, Janice (2011) - Has an orientation towards a future feminist ideal been productive in feminist legal scholarship and activism? What do such insights mean for feminist legal studies? Keywords: time

• The Policing and Prosecution of Rape: What Do We Know and How Should Our Knowledge Shape Policy and Practice? by Stanko, with Louise Ellison, Martin Hewitt and Harriet Wistrich, Betsy (2014) - Betsy Stanko is Honorary Professor of Criminology at Royal Holloway, University of London and Assistant Director, Planning and Portfolio, Metropolitan Police Service. Louise Ellison addresses the treatment of rape complainants with mental health conditions; Martin Hewitt discusses the need to provide access to justice for rape victims; and Harriet Wistrich talks about the recent civil case, DSD v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis Keywords: police

• Working Together against the Criminal Justice System, Forced Treatment, Interlocking Oppression, and Common Sense: Disability, Criminal Justice and Law and Decarcerating Disability by Chapman, Chris (2023) - In conversation last summer, Ben-Moshe described Disability Incarcerated as now an “artefact,” given the incredible amount of activist and scholarly energies that have gone into that larger political and intellectual project since that time, especially under the (sometimes overlapping) banners of Disability Justice and Black Lives Matter organizing. feminists@law Vol 12, No 1 (2023) __________________________________________________________________________________ Working together against the criminal justice system, forced treatment, interlocking oppression, and common sense: Disability, Criminal Justice and Law and Decarcerating Disability Chris Chapman[footnoteRef:1]* Keywords: ben; disability; justice; moshe
• Reflections on Disability, Justice and Abolition by Lamble, Sarah (2023) - Abstract This piece offers reflections on Liat Ben-Moshe’s recent book Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition and Linda Steele’s recent book Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: Reconsidering Court Diversion and their contributions to abolitionist work, disability justice and decarceration.  Within this wider context, it is an apt time to be discussing Ben-Moshe and Steele’s books as they both speak to important questions of resistance and strategy in challenging institutions of carceral control and violence. Keywords: 2020; abolition; abolitionist; ben; book; disability; moshe
• Abolitionist (Un)Learning: Reflections on Decarcerating Disability and Disability, Criminal Justice and Law by Parkes, Debra (2023) - My current work on the normalization of life sentences and what it means to centre people serving life sentences for murder in our abolitionist movements (Parkes 2021), is indebted to these insights from Decarcerating Disability and Ben-Moshe’s earlier work. Ben-Moshe shows how the tactic of starting with the most “challenging” work is a deeply feminist praxis, drawing on bell hooks and the act of shifting the margins to the centre (Ben-Moshe 2020, 125). Keywords: ben; disability; law; moshe; steele

• David Wilson, Mary Ann Cotton: Britain's First Female Serial Killer by Pearman, Joanne (2013) - This is not to say that it is not of academic interest to serious historians concerned with murder cases of the 19th century. Other examples of these authorial asides are of some lengthy descriptions of other murder cases such as that of George Joseph Smith (page 123) and Jack the Ripper (page 165), and it is here that it is most apparent that this book may be intended for a non-specialist market that may not have direct knowledge of the cases and the issues that they raise. Keywords: book; case; cotton; wilson

• Challenging and Redressing Police Failures in the Context of Rape Investigations: The Civil Liability Route by Conaghan, Joanne (2015) - Located within a broader policy context of growing concern over the low rate of convictions for rape cases and set against a backdrop of substantial reform of rape law, not just in England and Wales but around the globe, the police handling of rape investigations has attracted repeated criticism and public scrutiny. Looking beyond the UK, it is clear that both tort and human rights arguments have been successfully invoked to redress systemic and operational problems pertaining to the police conduct of rape investigations. Keywords: rape

• Editorial: Why We Oppose Gold Open Access by Hunter, Rosemary; Alessandrini, Donatella; Williams, Toni (2012) - Members also see journal access as a valuable benefit, and this helps to sustain membership levels. Under a ‘Gold Open Access’ regime, journal access would no longer constitute a membership benefit and correspondingly, membership numbers may decrease (thereby reducing revenues from membership fees as well). Keywords: access; apcs; journals; report; research

• Peter Squires and John Lea (eds), Criminalisation and Advanced Marginality: Critically Exploring the Work of Loic Wacquant by Welsh, Lucy (2013) - Again, however, Bourdieu assumes passivity on the part of those subject to the inevitability of neo-liberal theory and practice. One begins to wonder if, rather than highlighting the effects of so-called neo-liberal policies as happens here, a wholesale review of the very assumptions made about what characterises neo-liberal practice is required. Keywords: book; neo; wacquant

• KEYNOTE The Sexual Contract: 30 Years On by Pateman, Carole (2018) - She notes that the book focuses on contracts concerning property in the person and in particular contracts within three institutions: employment, marriage and prostitution. She goes on to discuss several key features of the book, including the distinction made in chapter 2 between different historical forms of patriarchy, with the modern form of patriarchy being based on contract, in which sexual subordination is presented as voluntary. Keywords: contract
• KEYNOTE The Unravelling Patriarchy by Tronto, Joan (2018) - Under neoliberalism, the entry of women into the labour market, the full commodification of women's work and increasing economic disparities between men have resulted in some women becoming 'honorary individuals', substantially autonomous of men, with the consequent disruption of both men's political and sexual domination of women. This process has, in turn, given rise to a violent, misogynist and antidemocratic backlash in the form of neopopulism, in which men who have lost out economically feel a sense of deprivation, blame women, and seek a return to earlier forms of patriarchal domination. Keywords: contract
• Twentieth Century Housewives and The Sexual Contract by Thompson, Sharon (2018) - In this paper, I argue that The Sexual Contract enriches our understanding of the lived experiences of twentieth century housewives like Mrs Blackwell by looking to the root causes of their oppression and finding them in the sexual contract underpinning marriage. These are the words of Goddard LJ in Blackwell v Blackwell [1943] 2 All ER 579, where it was held that Mrs Blackwell’s savings of one hundred pounds ten shillings in the Oxford and District Co-operative Society were the property of her husband, from whom Mrs Blackwell had been separated for two years. Keywords: contract; law
• A Feminist Discourse on the Global Indian Surrogacy Bazaar by Saravanan, Sheela (2018) - India banned surrogacy on reported deaths of surrogate mothers and egg donors, custody battles for children, abandonment of disabled and undesired children and exploitation of women, apart from trafficking for surrogacy. The surrogacy practice maintains patriarchy through familial persuasion and contracts that control and exploit women’s bodies and effect triple-alienation: from the children born, from their own body and physical alienation. Keywords: contract; surrogacy

• Nourishing Ourselves: A zine for social justice activists by Jivraj, Suhraiya; Alsaraji, Alaa; Manzoor-Khan, Suhaiymah (2023) - We found ourselves mirroring each other in many ways - with the first model often reflecting feelings of over- stretchedness, overwhelm and burn-out; and the second model symbolising a hope for holistic ways of existing, balance, playfulness, and growth. “We all nourish ourselves in different ways, ways that may not necessarily be tied to our individual practices, and so how can we continually cultivate nourishment through the unexpected or unfamiliar…” - Iman 46 47 Thank you to all our participants 50 51 Alaa Alsaraji @alaa_alsaraji Alaa is a visual artist, designer and creative facilitator. Keywords: alaa; nature; nourishing; space; suhaiymah; way; workshop

• The Struggle to Imagine Higher Education Otherwise: The Transformative Potential of Diverse Gender Knowledges by Fraser, Jennifer (2020) - We surveyed higher education students at all levels as well as staff who teach across the UK. While there are still administrative issues that they struggle to resolve for trans and non-binary students, there appears to be space for senior staff to engage relationally with students. Keywords: binary; education; students

• 'For Women Scotland' [2025] UKSC 16, [2025] 2 WLR 879: ‘Paper certificates’, Gender Recognition Certificates and other legal documents by Brown, Alan (2025) - Thus, in this blog, I am going to consider how the judgment’s language concerning GRCs is noteworthy for what I argue that language implies concerning other legal certificates and orders which give effect to a change of legal status. My argument is that this judicial language has potentially troubling implications for other legal statuses that are changed through certification or court order. Keywords: certificates; language; status

• Introduction: Diminishing Returns? Feminist Engagements with the Return to "the Commons" by Douglas, Stacy (2012) - The dining hall is located in a busy area of the university with a high amount of student foot traffic and is a regular spot for student meetings and group activities. This occupation came just three months after Kent students carried out a four-week occupation of the Senate Building that lasted over Christmas and New Year. Keywords: commons; communism; university; žižek

• The Protection of Civilians and Protection of Peacekeeping Mandates: Gender and Ethics in Collective Security by Heathcote, Gina (2016) - It focuses on the robust peacekeeping mandates in the Security Council resolutions on the Protection of Civilians and on Women, Peace and Security to demonstrate how the Security Council's thematic resolutions are increasingly used to justify new modes of force. The lecture considers how Security Council authority and legitimacy gain traction through the deployment and development of normative provisions. Keywords: security

• Marriage, Work, and the Dissolution of the Productive Household by Taylor, Luke (2018) - Building on Pateman’s insights into the construction of the family and marriage in political thought, the paper shows how law and legal thought contributed to the disaggregation of work and family life, and constructed (in place of the household) a legal conception of the private family that revolved around the married couple. This paper is an historical study of the dissolution of the productive household in (primarily) nineteenth-century English law and legal thought. Keywords: paper

• Review of Emma Cunliffe, 'Murder, Medicine and Motherhood' by Darian-Smith, Eve (2013) - The central issue the author interrogates in the context of infant death is the construction of criminal responsibility – and specifically a mother’s criminal responsibility – in contemporary society, and what this construction reveals both about the cultural expectations of mothers and the truth-finding claims of the legal system. These inroads into reducing infant deaths also heightened pressure on paediatric forensic pathologists to produce better autopsy protocols and investigations into the increasingly rare death of an infant. Keywords: cunliffe; death; infant

• Queering Asylum Anxieties: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugee Claims by Raj, Senthorun (2017) - Drawing on appellate case law from Australia, UK, US, and the EU, my paper will disturb how fear stifles the recognition of queer identity, intimacy, and injury. Over the last three decades, an increasing number of Anglophone courts have recognised asylum claims on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Keywords: queer
• Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities by Chavez, Karma (2013) - Karma Chavez, 'Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities' This is an audio recording of a lecture given by Dr Karma Chavez in the Kent Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, University of Kent on 17 June 2013. A podcast of the lecture can also be found on the Decolonizing Sexualities Network website at http://www.decolonizingsexualities.org/karma-chavez-lecture/ Karma Chavez is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Arts and in Chican@ and Latin@ Keywords: queer

• Introduction by Bedford, Kate (2012) - [2: See Honduras Action Monitor, Honduras Feminists in Resistance, 2009. This issue is pressing not only for Honduras, but also for a range of other countries in the region undergoing constitutional reform processes that seek to involve social movement actors and achieve substantive, transformative political change. Keywords: resistance

• Demanding the Unthinkable by Spade, Dean (2011) - Anti-patriarchal political projects are continually being invited and seduced into the realm of possibility as new justifications for criminalization and empire.   The political demands of prison abolition and an end to immigration enforcement require us to untangle the interwoven norms, knowledges and practices that produce the policing and imprisonment of people through criminal punishment systems, immigration enforcement systems and medical/psychiatric systems. Keywords: caging; immigration; law; non; systems

• Concluding Remarks by Genovese, Ann (2013) - I will leave then the questions raised by the contents of the papers: the property and administrative law questions; the problems of law reform, and public housing; the very idea of the social - the idea of where Home sits as responsibility of and space for and by the polis, in Arendt’s terms; not to mention how we tell and account for home, and its pasts. They not only ask us to think about home conceptually and doctrinally as a lived experience of law, but in doing so, as Helen Carr says, they show a site and a way of acting with law that connects with the tradition of feminist praxis concerned with reimaging how we might live. Keywords: home; law

• Home and State: Reflections on Metaphor and Practice by Davies, Margaret (2013) - Margaret Davies is a Professor at Flinders Law School, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. This is a recording of the presentation given by Margaret Davies at the seminar on 'Feminist Jurisprudence and the Question of Home', held at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne on 6 September 2013. Keywords: davies

• Beyond Accommodation: The Legacy of Feminist Critique and the Search for Justice by Johnson, Toni A.M. (2011) - � Drucilla Cornell, Beyond Accommodation: Ethical Feminism, Deconstruction and the Law (Routledge, London 1991); The Imaginary Domain: Abortion Pornography and Sexual Harassment (Routledge, London 1995); For Cornell language is far from neutral. Keywords: cornell; domain; freedom; law

• Introduction: Feminist Jurisprudence and the Question of Home by Genovese, Ann (2013) - Genovese introduction feminists@law, Vol 3, No 2 (2013) Introduction: Feminist Jurisprudence and the Question of Home Anne Genovese The seminar 'Feminist Jurisprudence and the Question of Home', convened by Dr Ann Genovese, was held at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne on 6 September 2013, under the auspices of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities (ILAH). Here, Ann Genovese introduces the seminar and the speakers.   Keywords: genovese

• Sexual Assault and Advance Consent: A Feminist Judgment in R v JA by Koshan, Jennifer (2015) - In doing so, it explores the proposal of Justice Fish, writing in dissent at the Supreme Court of Canada, that an appropriate balance might be that taken under s 75(2)(d) of the UK's Sexual Offences Act 2003, which creates a presumption against advance consent but not an absolute bar to arguing it. The author is a member of the Women's Court of Canada project, the first feminist judgment re-writing project internationally, and she also speaks to the potential value as well as challenges of feminist judgment writing. Keywords: judgment

• The Absence of the ‘Surrogacy Contract’ from Judicial Constructions of Surrogacy by Brown, Alan (2018) - The central principles of the regulation of surrogacy in the UK are set out in the Surrogacy Arrangements Act 1985; s.1A states that surrogacy arrangements are unenforceable and s.2 prohibits commercial surrogacy. Thus, this paper argues that this absence of contemporary consideration of the contractual nature of surrogacy arrangements reflects the disregarding of the sexual contract that Pateman identified 30 years ago.   Keywords: surrogacy

• Accessible Justice? Rape Victimisation and Psychosocial Disability by Ellison, Louise; Munro, Vanessa; Hohl, Katrin; Wallang, Paul (2015) - Our analysis of this snapshot of Metropolitan Police rape reporting suggests that a significant number of rape complainants have recorded PSDs, and that these complainants are significantly more likely than those without recorded PSDs to experience additional, circumstantial vulnerabilities, including intellectual disability, alcohol and/or drug dependency, and repeat victimisation. Katrin Hohl is a Lecturer in Criminology at City University London, UK. Keywords: complainants; university

• Equality Claims and Population Control by Spade, Dean (2011) - In 2002, Dean founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (srlp.org), a non-profit law collective that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming people who are low-income and/or people of color. This paper looks at how social movements resisting intersectional state violence are formulating demands (like prison abolition and an end to immigration enforcement) that exceed the narrow confines of the discrimination principle and take administrative systems as adversaries in ways that pull the nation-state form itself into crisis. Keywords: dean; law

• Social Reproduction of Human Beings: A Feminist Perspective by Picchio, Antonella (2012) - In the first lecture, Antonella Picchio draws on classical political economy to explore the present capitalist tension between production, rent and profit on the one hand and social reproduction on the other. Antonella Picchio, 'Social Reproduction of Human Beings: A Feminist Perspective' feminists@law is pleased to launch the first in a series of online guest lectures that trace the (dis)continuities between the debate on immaterial labour and value which originated in Italy in the 1970s and the current debate on precarity/precariousness which has more recently emerged as a central concern of transnational feminist scholarship and activism (see 2007 special issue of Feminist Review). Keywords: picchio

• Persons and Property by Davies, Margaret (2012) - Margaret Davies, 'Persons and Property' This is an audio recording of an Open Lecture given by Professor Margaret Davies, Leverhulme Visiting Fellow in the Kent Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, at the University of Kent on 18 January 2012. The lecture is introduced by Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Keith Mander. Keywords: margaret

• In Defence of Experience by Oksala, Johanna (2012) - Johanna Oksala, 'In Defence of Experience' This is an audio recording of a seminar given by Dr Johanna Oksala at the Kent Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, University of Kent on 7 March 2013. Dr Oksala gives a brief introduction before commencing to read her paper. Keywords: oksala

• Values Beyond Value? Is Anything Safe from being Subsumed by the Logic of Capitalism? by Skeggs, Beverley (2013) - Is Anything Safe from being Subsumed by the Logic of Capital?' This is an audio recording of a seminar given by Professor Beverley Skeggs in the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent on 7 March 2013. Beverley Skeggs, 'Values Beyond Value? Keywords: beverley

• About the Artist by Ring, Sinead (2013) - These will rotate between a series of different angles from a fallen perspective, set in different environments. To represent the various elements of the affects from the fall, the piece will consist of a number of different layers. Keywords: fall

• Author Meets Reader Session: 'Not the Marrying Kind' by Barker, Nicola; Monk, Daniel (2013) - feminists@law, Vol.3, No.1 (2013) Nicola Barker and Daniel Monk, Discussion of 'Not the Marrying Kind' Nicola Barker is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent. Keywords: nicola

• With Dissolution Comes Revelation: Civil Partners Discover the Economic Basis of Marriage by Auchmuty, Rosemary (2013) - Rosemary Auchmuty, 'With Dissolution Comes Revelation: Civil Partners Discover the Economic Basis of Marriage' This is an audio recording of Rosemary Auchmuty's paper delivered as part of the 'Family and Children Law and Policy' stream at the SLSA Annual Conference, University of York, 27 March 2013. Rosemary Auchmuty is a Professor of Law at the University of Reading. Keywords: rosemary

• Gender and Precarity in Contemporary Italy: Labor, Value, Social Reproduction by Fantone, Laura (2013) - Dr Laura Fantone is a Lecturer in Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. feminists@law, Vol.3, No.2 (2013) Laura Fantone, 'Gender and Precarity in Contemporary Italy: Labour, Value and Social Reproduction' Keywords: file

• Utopias, Dystopias and the Changing Lawscapes of Social Housing by Carr, Helen (2013) - Social Housing Helen Carr This is a recording of the paper given by Helen Carr at the seminar on 'Feminist Jurisprudence and the Question of Home' held at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne on 6 September 2013. Helen Carr is a Reader in Law at Kent Law School, University of Kent, UK. Keywords: carr

• Women and Homelessness: Winning and Losing in the Welfare State by Hunter, Caroline (2013) - This is a recording of the paper given by Caroline Hunter at the seminar on 'Feminist Jurisprudence and the Question of Home' held at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, on 6 September 2013. Caroline Hunter is a Professor at York Law School, University of York, UK.  caroline.hunter@york.ac.uk Keywords: hunter

• Black and White: History of Racial Identity in Italy by Giuliani, Gaia (2014) - This is a video, with accompanying powerpoint slides, of a lecture given by Dr Gaia Giuliani at the Leeds Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds, on 23 October 2013. feminists@law, Vol 4, No 1 (2014) Gaia Giuliani, 'Black and White: History of Racial Identity in Italy' Keywords: giuliani

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