Women and the Law

Originally published in 1984, Women And The Law is a pioneering study of the way in which the law has treated women - at work, in the family, in matters of sexuality and fertility, and in public life. It went on to inspire a legion of women lawyers and feminist legal rulings, from the Family Law Act 1996 to the legal definition of 'violence'. This 2018 edition provides a timely analysis of women in law forty years on, how much has changed and the work still left to do.