Reassessing Feminist Legal Theories: Introduction

The latest book in the Springer series Gender Perspectives in Law, which is entitled Reassessing Feminist Legal Theories, offers a perspective on theoretical/philosophical grounding of some of the dominant themes from the disciplinary field. The title of the volume, however, already pinpoints some of the intricate and harshly debated meta-theoretical issues of the scholarship. First of them concerns the adjective ‘feminist’ in correlation to law. By deliberately merging and contrasting some of the classical works in the field with fresh scholarly contributions, the volume problematizes the very meaning of concepts ‘feminism/feminist’ and ‘gender’, their mutual relation, as well as their correlation with ‘law’.