ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the evolution of feminist legal thought over the past three or four decades can be understood as a scale shift - a shift away from the 'domestic' realm toward the transnational, and that this scale shift has worked with and through a variety of chronotopes. The focus on the collective subjectivity of women was the feminist version of a theoretical project that had begun well before second-wave feminism. The reflection on questions of scale and jurisdiction in feminist legal thought pursued in the chapter can be illuminated by means of Judith Butler's powerful, deconstructive reading of the figure of Antigone. The geographic scale of second-wave feminist theory -that is, the households and the workplaces and the streets of 'ordinary', largely white Western urban women - was therefore taken for granted. The second-wave feminist family-reform project amounted to something like a dual monarchy.
