Is the Law Helpful for Feminist Battles? MacKinnon and Cigarini’s Perspectives

Is the law a tool for feminism or an expression of patriarchy? Is the law able to authentically recognize the differences between the sexes, or does it apply falsely universal and neutral principles historically developed having in mind a male, heterosexual, cis-gender, and able-bodied person? This post discusses the way feminist philosophies of law have addressed these questioned since the 1970s.