Erika Rackley and Rosemary Auchmuty (eds), Women's Legal Landmarks: Celebrating the History of Women and Law in the UK and Ireland

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DOI10.3366/elr.2019.0589
Published date01 September 2019
Date01 September 2019
Pages458-459

In recent decades, even before Merriam Webster dubbed “feminism” word of the year (see www.theguardian.com/books/2017/dec/13/feminism-merriam-webster-word-of-the-year ), studies on law and gender have proliferated. An example of this is the global feminist judgments movement (in which both Rackley and Auchmuty have been involved), which began in 2004 and continues to grow. Yet the task of exposing law's often-buried gender norms and blind spots is ongoing. As Cynthia Enloe reminds us, when we stop asking “where women are and where men are…who put women there and men here” and “who benefits from women being there and not someplace else”, we allow patriarchy to “glide right by us like an oil tanker on a foggy night” (C Enloe, The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire (2004) 4). And, as anyone who cares to look will see, patriarchy – and the misogyny...

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