ABSTRACT
A main purpose of this book has been to construct a warning to feminism to avoid the siren call of law. But of equal importance has been the attempt to acknowledge the power of feminism to construct an alternative reality to the version which is manifested in legal discourse. I am conscious of gaps, inconsistencies, and contradictions in the preceding pages but I have none the less tried to establish a basic thesis throughout, namely that we must produce a deeper understanding of law in order to comprehend its resistance to and denial of women’s concerns. The feminist movement (broadly defined) is too easily ‘seduced’ by law and even where it is critical of law it too often attempts to use law pragmatically in the hope that new law or more law might be better than the old law.
