Gender, Sexuality, and the Law

This volume examines the role of law as a tool for advancing women’s rights and gender equity in local, national, and global contexts.

Many feminist scholars note a marked failure of law to achieve goals connected to women’s rights and gender equality. Despite its limitations, law provides aspirational norms that can be mobilized to hold institutions accountable and to provide material benefit to those excluded from systems of power. In conversation with each other, the chapters in this volu...