Abstract
This essay considers the relation between the conduct and the personae of the feminist, the historian and the jurisprudent; and, the writing of history and of jurisprudence. It does so treating part of the relation between historiography and jurisprudence as engaged as an art of selffashioning, in the preparation for an ‘institutionalised social office’. The immediate purpose of this essay is to show how these arts of self fashioning came to be inherited by Australian feminism. In doing so, I will assert the centrality of Simone De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex in that tradition. I suggest that acknowledging this practice and its inheritance is important when considering how we might live productively the plurality of institutional life and the life lived – in law, and for our present.
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