ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the contribution that postmodernism and critical postmodernism make to expanding feminist thinking about change. Using postmodern thinking to analyse some of the language used in feminist understandings of the problems with the legal responses to sexual assault, highlights a number of important considerations. The chapter explores the influences these theoretical ideas provide in understanding practitioners' sense of powerlessness to bring about change in the legal system and in formulating different conceptualisations of change. It introduces the model of critical reflection that was used as the method of inquiry in this research. The chapter argues that critical reflection, based on critical postmodern theorising, can assist practitioners to reconceptualise possibilities to work constructively with the legal system towards change. It examines how the inclusion of these ideas has the potential to reduce practitioners' sense of powerlessness and bring about change by assisting them to formulate new practice options.
