A critical law reform project
We are delighted to announce the publication of a special issue of feminists@law on The Future of Legal Gender: Exploring the Feminist Politics of Decertification, click here for open access.
Thank you to the 106 people who joined us on 19 Jan 2021 for our virtual event, jointly hosted with the Centre for Sexuality, Race and Gender Justice (SeRGJ) at the University of Kent, to mark the launch of the special issue. A podcast of the presentations is now available.
What should gender’s future be? Should gender fade in significance, become a matter of personal choice, define new ways of living and being, or remain a category of domination and inequality? And what can law contribute to these changes?
Currently in Britain, we all bear a legal gender, starting with the sex we are registered as having at birth. But are there good reasons for retaining a system in which people are gendered in ways that carry formal legal status? What might change involve? And what are the implications, in terms of the challenges, risks and benefits, of radical reform? These questions form the basis for our four-year critical law reform project, begun in May 2018, and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
The Future of Legal Gender project is led by researchers at King’s College London, and the Universities of Kent and Loughborough, with the support of an international advisory board.
Find out more about who we are here.
Logo by Sabrin Fetih, second and third images by Ben Kanter. Main image from Shutterstock (unattributed).