Feminist legal theory
A body of theory analysing how law constructs, reflects, and can reduce gendered power relations and inequalities.
Feminist legal theory examines how legal rules, institutions, and categories affect women and gender-diverse persons, and how apparently neutral norms may reproduce inequality. It includes liberal, radical, intersectional, postcolonial, and queer approaches. Topics include equality, care work, violence, reproductive autonomy, labour markets, family law, and access to justice. In Switzerland, feminist legal analysis is relevant to constitutional equality, anti-discrimination policy, social security, parental roles, sexual offences, and the interaction between gender, migration status, disability, class, and language.