Transcending the Boundaries of Law is a ground-breaking
collection that will be central to future developments in feminist
and related critical theories about law. In its pages three
generations of feminist legal theorists engage with what have
become key feminist themes, including equality, embodiment,
identity, intimacy, and law and politics. Almost two decades ago
Routledge published the very first anthology in feminist legal
theory, At the Boundaries of Law (M.A. Fineman and N. Thomadsen,
eds. 1991), which marked an important conceptual move away from the
study of "women in law" prevalent in the 1970s and 1980s. The
scholars in At the Boundaries applied feminist methods and theories
in examining law and legal institutions, thus expanding upon work
in the Law and Society tradition. This new anthology brings
together some of the original contributors to that volume with
scholars from subsequent generations of critical gender theorists.
It provides a "retrospective" on the past twenty-five years of
scholarly engagement with issues relating to gender and law, as
well as suggesting directions for future inquiry, including the
tantalizing suggestion that feminist legal theory should move
beyond gender as its primary focus to consider the theoretical,
political, and social implications of the universally shared and
constant vulnerability inherent in the human condition.
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