ABSTRACT

Moving beyond the question of whether an area of scholarly investigation can truly be characterized as 'legal', Exploiting the Limits of Law combats the often unhelpful constraints of law's subject-matter and formal processes. Through a process of reflection on the limits of law and repeated efforts to redraw them, this book challenges the general sense of pessimism among feminists and others about the usefulness of law as an instrument of change. The work combines theoretical analysis of the law's boundaries with investigation of the practical settings for changing legal and policy environments. Both the empirical focus of this volume, and its underlying theoretical concern with the limits of the law and its gender implications, render it of interest to legal scholars throughout the world, whether of EU law, feminism, social policy or philosophy.

chapter Chapter 2|34 pages

Boundary-Work in Legal Scholarship1

chapter Chapter 3|18 pages

An Apparent Boundary Between Law and Politics

chapter Chapter 7|14 pages

Challenging the Heteronormativity of Law

chapter Chapter 10|20 pages

Exclusion of Solo Mothers in the Welfare State