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The Making of a Field or the Building of a Wall? Feminist Legal Studies and Law, Gender and Sexuality

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  1. Halley represented feminism roughly as follows: ‘m/f, m > f, Carrying a Brief for f’. In so doing she attributed to feminism three core characteristics: “first, to be a feminist, a position must make a distinction between m and f”. By this Halley means that feminist discourse is always reliant on some kind of gendered polarity. “Secondly…a position must posit some kind of subordination between m and f in which f is the disadvantaged and subordinated element.” Third, “Feminism is feminism, because, as between m and f, it carries a brief for f” (Halley 2004, p. 61).

  2. See Munro (2008) for an exploration of the discursive contexts within which issues of sex trafficking are framed. For a direct critique of victimisation discourse within feminism, see Kapur (2002).

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Conaghan, J. The Making of a Field or the Building of a Wall? Feminist Legal Studies and Law, Gender and Sexuality. Fem Leg Stud 17, 303–307 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-009-9136-3

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