ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book demonstrates that in the age of ‘postfeminism’, the conversation within and about legal feminism is at least as diverse and vigorous as it was in the 1990s. It utilizes the term ‘postfeminism’ to explore three key themes: legal feminism, politics, and law. The book focuses on what ‘postfeminism’ offers for collective action and a politics of feminist law reform and explores what postfeminism might offer feminists theorising the law, the legal system, and its institutions. It examines how legal feminism is understood, including the challenges to legal feminism and argues that the fortunes of feminism in the Australian legal academy are closely intertwined with the prevailing political ideology. The book analyses postfeminism through a postmodern lens and also argues that rather than facilitating a retreat from feminism, postfeminism enables legal feminists to think more widely and embrace diverse narratives of emancipation.
