Contents: Introduction, Clare McGlynn; Perspectives on Sex, Gender and the Legal Profession: The gendering of the professional subject: commitment, choice and social closure in the legal profession, Hilary Sommerlad; (Un) sexy bodies: the making of professional legal masculinities, Richard Collier. Interdisciplinary and Theoretical Perspectives: Fabled explanations of bias, Katherine O'Donovan; When mercy seasons justice: Shakespeare's woman lawyer, Ian Ward; Rape law: harbouring an implicit relation between law and psychology, Fiona E. Raitt and M. Suzanne Zeedyk; The business of equality, Clare McGlynn. International, European and Comparative Perspectives: Contextualizing international women's rights: Canadian feminism, race and culture, David S. Berry; Women and water law: from theory to practice, Elizabeth A. Kirk and Jenny Tooze; Women's law and cultural understandings of gender in Finland, Anu Pylkkänen; Special protection of women's rights in China, Junping He; A place for maternity in the European Union, Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella; The construction of women in the non-consensual sterilization debate: why a feminist analysis is needed, Mary Donnelly; Index.