Rethinking Equality Projects in Law

Rosemary Hunter is a Professor of Law at the University of Kent, Canterbury, the Academic Editor of Feminist Legal Studies, and Chair of the RCSL Working Group on Gender and Law.

• Introduction: Feminism and EqualityRosemary HunterPart I Equality Projects in Law Reform1. The Married Women’s Property Acts: Equality Was Not the IssueRosemary Auchmuty2. The Demise of the Provocation Defence and the Failure of Equality ConceptsHeather Douglas3. Is Equality Enough? Fathers’ Rights and Women’s Rights AdvocacySusan B Boyd4. Alternatives to EqualityRosemary HunterPart II Constitutional Equality Projects5. Equality Rights: What’s Wrong?Reg Graycar and Jenny Morgan6. Haunting (In)equalitiesKarin Van MarlePart III Personal Equality Projects in the Legal Profession7. Gender Equality and Legal Professionalism: Challenges for the First Women LawyersMary Jane Mossman8. That Obscure Object of Desire: Sex Equality and the Legal ProfessionHilary Sommerlad

...a good primer to a rich set of theoretical arguments and debates, providing a solid overview, not just of international legal development through a feminist lens, but also feminist thought more generally. The extensive footnotes will be prized by law and APD scholars, as well as those looking at projects relating to the expression of gender in institutions more broadly. The collection represents a great effort by Hunter and her colleagues.