ABSTRACT
Critical reflection on feminist engagement with law has expressed concern about the limits of law's particular dimensions and about law's relationship with other forms of normative ordering. Some have responded by developing legal critique through revisiting core legal values such as respect (Munro, 2007). Others have called for the further distancing of critique from reform in order to interrogate the regulatory capacities of legalism (Brown and Halley, 2002). Hunter et al. (2010) focus on generating the content of gender-sensitive arguments in the aspiration that law will change through the adoption of new content. Others have addressed ‘legal technicalities’, such as jurisdiction, in order to consider the critical resources which they may offer (Drakopoulou, 2006; Valverde, 2009). Here, I respond to these insights by reading them as a collective invitation to reconsider the relationship between legal form and content from a materialist perspective.
