Part I of this Article explores possible definitions of feminist scholarship and the role of feminist theory in scholarship, using tax as an example. Part II examines the current usage of feminist tax articles and the effect of the feminist tax scholarship label. Part III discusses the value of...

This paper attempts to locate the feminist critique of philosophy within the broader feminist goal of seeking equality in society. The argument for achieving the stated feminist goal purportedly begins within the conceptual world. In particular, the paper attempts at unveiling the philosophic...

Anti-essentialist critiques of feminist legal theory have led to a broadening of feminist theory to reflect the voices of women of color, those of different classes and those of homosexual orientation. However, despite both the insistence on the need to include other voices and the growing...

One of the most celebrated successes of the feminist movement is its lasting impact on domestic violence criminal laws. Today, society has moved from discourse characterizing domestic abuse as legitimate or merely a private problem to a belief that battering is a heinous crime, more egregious...

In this article I argue that feminist legal scholars have much to contribute to and benefit from the emerging field of an economic sociology of law. Feminist legal scholars have long exposed at least at the theoretical level, the mutually constitutive relationship between the market and the...

When sexual violence against a woman is inflicted, how should the law conceptualise and formulate that offence? Should such an offence require proof of the violation of the chastity or the dignity of the woman?1 If it is based on chastity and virginity, the offence is perceived as being against...

This Article is the result of an intense series of text and telephone exchanges among the four of us, taking place from December 2005 to April 2006. Each of us has her own project which forms the basis of her contribution to this conversation. Janet Halley is working on new rules governing...

All too often, attempts to define or evaluate good scholarship develop criteria of meritocracy that reinforce existing hierarchies. Some of the efforts are quantitative. They involve cataloguing articles as measured by overall citation rates, ranking law reviews by citation counts, or...

The longstanding coined phrase “feminization of poverty” refers to the fact that many women are poor and many of the poor are women, a phenomenon that stems from social, economic, and legal systems which reinforce an antiquated single-earner family model. In response, this Afterword...