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    Unravelling Law’s Kinning Practices: Feminism, Fictive Families and the Albert Kennedy Trust
    with Helen Carr
    Feminist Legal Studies 20 (2): 105-120. 2012.
    In 1989 Smart problematised law as a masculinist knowledge which disqualified other forms of knowledge, particularly feminism. Twenty-one years later Smart characterises the relationship between law and feminism quite differently. In this account law responds to feminism and outcomes are progressive. Smart suggests that rather than continuing to focus on law’s disciplinary and normalising role, it is more productive to conceptualise contemporary family law as a creative kinning practice. We argu…Read more