Rosalind Dixon (University of New South Wales (UNSW) – Faculty of Law) & Amelia Loughland have posted Gender Disruption, Amelioration and Transformation: A Comparative Perspective (Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Law in the U.S. (Deborah L. Brake, Martha Chamallas, & Verna L. Williams, eds.) (forthcoming 2022)) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
American legal feminism has many different variants, each offering important insights. The danger, however, is that this complexity to feminist legal thought may cause some lawyers and scholars to “tune out” to feminist insights. The paper thus provides a way of understanding these various insights, which acknowledges their complexity but seeks to make them more accessible. It proposes the idea of feminist “disruption”, “amelioration” and “transformation” as organizing principles that underpin feminist thought, in different ways and to different degrees, but which provide a common language for understanding new and older feminisms. It illustrates this approach, and its potential benefits, through the lens of a feminist analysis of COVID-19 and its impact.
Highly recommended.