First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

... the reader will encounter within its pages both close analysis of case law and very practical strategies aimed at making the law work for women. It is surely essential reading for anyone who is prepared to question the familiar orthodoxies which underpin the core of what we do in the law schools. The Cambridge Law Journal,1996.

Anne Bottomley: teaches law at the University of Kent, is the author of many papers exploring and developing feminist perspectives on law and is and editor of the English journal Feminist Legal Studies.

Contracting Out/ Contracting In: Some Feminist Considerations; Gender and Contracts; Tort Law and the Feminist Critique of Reason; A Feminist Challenge to Tort Law; Being Here: What a Woman Can Say About Land Law; Figures in a Landscape; Mapping Equit's Place: Here be Dragons; Beauty and the Beastly Bank: What Should Equity's Fairy Wand Do?; Ther Mirror Tells its Tale: Constructions of Gender in Criminal Law; Battered Woman Syndrome: Shifting the Parameters of Criminal Law Defences; Critical Perspectives on Women's Rights: The European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms; A New Settlement Between the Sexes? Constitutional Law and the Citizenship of Women; Equality of Treatment in European Community Law: The Limits of Market Equality; The Internal Market and the European Union: Some Feminist Notes.