ABSTRACT
Feminism is characterised by a focus on gender as a central organising principle of social life; an emphasis on the concept of power and the ways that it affects social relations; and an unwavering commitment to progressive social change.2 Feminist approaches generally reject universalist claims or accounts of the abstracted self. They ask questions about subject and standpoint, and try to recognise the situated nature of people’s lives. They also acknowledge and explore the structural factors which contribute to the void between legal and substantive equality, crossing disciplinary boundaries and traversing conventional divides.
