Feminist Perspectives on The Foundational Subjects of Law

1. Contracting Out/Contracting In: Some Feminist Considerations
2. Gender and Contracts
3. Tort Law and the Feminist Critique of Reason
4. A Feminist Challenge to Tort Law
5. Being Here: What a Woman Can Say About Land Law
6. Figures in a Landscape: Feminist Perspectives on Law, Land and Landscape
7. Mapping Equity’s Place: Here be Dragons
8. Beauty and the Beastly Bank: What Should Equity’s Fairy Wand Do?
9. The Mirror Tells its Tale: Constructions of Gender in Criminal Law
10. Battered Woman Syndrome: Shifting the Parameters of Criminal Law Defences
11. Critical Perspectives on Women’s Rights: The European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
12. A New Settlement Between the Sexes? Constitutional Law and the Citizenship of Women
13. Equality of Treatment in European Community Law: The Limits of Market Equality
14. The Internal Market and the European Union: Some Feminist Notes

This book provides a thought provoking and discursive account of feminist approaches to: contracts; torts; land law; equity and trusts; criminal law; public law; and European law. It offers an exciting selection of work which displays the breadth and depth of material, using historical and comparative analysis, political philosophy, legal theory and different literary styles to explore both law and feminist theory.