Abstract
Feminist struggles against sexual violence have been identified as responsible for the development of a ‘law and order’ state form that constructs women as victims, while further criminalising and disem-powering the marginalised. In this chapter, I consider the complex outcomes of sexual assault law reform in light of recent critiques of what critics have labelled ‘carceral feminism’ (Bernstein, 2007, 2010, 2012; Bumiller, 2008; Gottschalk, 2008; Halley, 2006; Reece, 2011). While a broad objective of this book is to think beyond rape law reform, this task is best accomplished by thinking through law reform as a feminist strategy. Against those who see feminist movements as complicit in the regressive politics of the law and order state, I offer a qualified defence of feminist strategies of law reform.
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