ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts of key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains a benefit in engaging with the law and reform endeavours in order to tackle violence against women. It is contended that there is both a symbolic and material importance in highlighting the law's failure to recognise and respond appropriately to the plight of women, and demanding that it does otherwise. The feminist law project aimed at responding to violence against women is an inevitably ongoing endeavor. The book engages in a detailed and critical analysis of how the law has, over the years, responded to violence against women. The focus is on violence, and rape/sexual assault is accordingly acknowledged to be a crime of violence. The numerous hard-fought reforms to both the substantive and procedural laws in order to recognise the reality of violence against women, to provide a more effective legal response and to ameliorate the plight of victims.
