This book is a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between feminist theories and the law, and the way in which developments of the former have affected, and been affected by, the latter.

The book takes as its starting point a study of women and culture on an international level, which demonstrates how religious and cultural influences have been fundamental in establishing contemporary legal and social mores. This provides the setting for an investigation into legal and social discrimination and inequality, and how this has been addressed by the emergence of feminism. A...

Covering the issues in feminist jurisprudence, this book aims to analyse the manner in which both traditional jurisprudence and law have remained a masculine subject despite the vast strides in the achievement of formal legal equality on the part of women. This book provides an analysis of this subject.

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