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‘We Could Not Imagine Their Home Could Be Our Home’: Towards a Feminist Legal Geography of home

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a feminist legal geographic approach to home. This is a generative framework for articulating and theorising the relationship between law and home. Integrating feminist socio-legal theory and feminist geography, this perspective brings feminist legal and geographic theory to the mainstream law and home literature and illuminates the many ways law is entwined with home. Through three case studies, we underscore the analytical timeliness of feminist approaches to law and home by illustrating shifts in politics and ideology and demonstrate the ways in which feminist legal geography reveals common threads that link together seemingly disparate or disconnected cases. Crucially, our approach drives a shift in how responsibility and accountability for structural and systemic violence is identified and understood through the concept of home, and the role of resistance to violence in this.

Source: Social & Legal Studies

DOI: 10.1177/09646639251322759

Authors: Beverley Clough, Henrietta Zeffert

Institutions: Manchester Metropolitan University, University College Cork

Language: English

Topic: Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Gender equality, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,650