The book is stimulating because it combines serious attention to the roles of law in society without losing sight of the problem of developing progressive agenda for women. The authors show convincingly ... that there are no easy answers to the problem of law's contribution to women's emancipation.

American Political Science Review

An excellent synthesis of the existing literature ^Rand^I an insightful addition to it that will help scholars integrate several approaches.

Karen O'Connor, Emory University

A valuable book on a range of feminist theoretical and policy debates, especially for the otherwise-unpublished Goldstein and Baer articles.

Journal of Politics