Book Review: Anne Bottomley and Joanne Conaghan, Eds., Feminist Theory and Legal Strategy

Abstract

One might expect an analysis of strategy informed by feminist theory to assess the relationship between means and ends from a feminist perspective, or perhaps bring to bear particular feminist critiques of law to reassess more conventional analyses of legal strategy. This collection of essays contributes to such an endeavour only sporadically and haphazardly. Although most essays employ the idea of strategy in some sense, by and large they do so in an unfortunately unreflective way.

Despite the shortcomings, this collection usefully provides a survey of various challenges for feminist law reform in very different areas of law. It also highlights the issue of strategy as a fit subject for feminist theorizing.