Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Legal theories
Chapter 3: Women’s Evolving Legal Status
Chapter 4: Beyond the gender binary?
Chapter 5: Employment
Chapter 6: Regulating Relationships
Chapter 7: Gender norms in the criminal courts
Chapter 8: Consent
Chapter 9: Sexual offences
Chapter 10: Reproductive Bodies
Chapter 11: Regulating pornography and prostitution
Biography
Judith Bourne is Senior Lecturer in Law at St Mary’s University College, Twickenham. She leads the First Women Lawyers in Great Britain & the Empire symposia and is author of Helena Normanton and the Opening of the Bar to Women. Her primary research interests include feminist legal history, Land Law and Equity and Trusts.
Caroline Derry is Lecturer in Law at the Open University where her primary research interests include gender, sexuality and the criminal law; feminist perspectives on criminal and evidence law; and feminist and lesbian legal history.
