ABSTRACT
The idea for this edited collection came out of our individual and collective experience of teaching aspects of law and gender over a number of years at different higher-education institutions. That experience, and talking to colleagues elsewhere in the sector who teach aspects of gender, made us realise that increasingly, for today’s younger generation, feminism is perceived as old news while equality is perceived as a fact of life. It is a done deal. There is apparently nothing left to say because now men and women are equal. Theoretically at least women can enter any profession they like, rise to the top and get treated and paid the same as men. They can apparently wear what they want, behave as they wish, even as ‘laddishly’ as the average young male. This perception, moreover, is constantly reinforced in the media through popular imagery, magazines, newspapers, chat shows and many types of television programmes, as well as being implicated in anti-feminist agendas.1
