“Scholarship of law in the 21st century demands openness to diversity, attention to ethics, methodological reflectiveness, and above all an ability to reimagine our legal worlds in new ways. Ann Genovese meets these challenges with her highly imaginative and self-reflective book. Feminist Jurisography offers readers an entirely fresh approach to the writing of law as a writing of life. Throughout, the need to experiment with writing, with life, and with ideas is emphasised and the result is a highly engaging account of feminist legal writing as a practice as well as of the writer’s journey with and experiences of a vast, sometimes eclectic, and always fascinating oeuvre.” Margaret Davies, Flinders University, Australia. “Feminist Jurisography is a wonderfully radical, innovative, and imaginative text. It explores the relationship between feminism, law, history and writing in an intensely personal manner that has implications for all of us. In tracing the emergence and obligations of the feminist jurisographer, Genovese suggests an intellectual approach for the future.” Ann Curthoys, University of Sydney, Australia. “A powerful and refreshingly original approach to reading and writing about law. Grounded in the analysis of key feminist texts, such as de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, Feminist Jurisography heralds a novel way of making sense of the world from a feminist perspective.” Margaret Thornton, Emerita Professor, Australian National University. Feminist Jurisography This book offers a jurisprudential meditation on and methodological performance of how feminist and legal thought come into relation. This book is about the conduct of one’s scholarship and why it requires examination. Across six essays, the book reintroduces official and unofficial jurisprudence writing of the late 20th century to show how disciplinary methods were transformed, and how relations between people and place, and between law and humanities, were transferred from the periphery to the centre of contemporary scholarship. To demonstrate this story, Feminist Jurisography experiments with genre, style, and form to historicise the relationship of a feminist jurisprudent to her own sources, methods, and interlocutors; and remind that it was feminist intellectuals from 1949 onwards who altered conducts of interdisciplinary scholarship in ways that are underacknowledged today. It exemplifies why naming a practice for yourself is an acknowledgment of relations of difference, collaboration, and inheritance, but also a performance of the feminist tradition of intellectual self-assertion that the book explores. The book will be a useful resource for scholars and students of law and humanities, feminism, and history, and of value to a general audience interested in feminist ideas. The book will benefit contemporary conversations about the history and status of feminist contributions to these fields. Ann Genovese is Professor at Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Australia. Feminist Jurisography Law, History, Writing Ann Genovese Designed cover image: La gioia del risveglio (Emma Baeri’s table, Catania) © Ann Genovese (2022) First published 2023 by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business A Glasshouse book © 2023 Ann Genovese The right of Ann Genovese to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-1-138-61860-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-032-42043-1 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-46113-2 (ebk) DOI: 10.4324/9780429461132 Typeset in Bembo by Apex CoVantage, LLC Contents Acknowledgments viii 1 Feminist Jurisography (Introductory Notes) 1 2 On Personal Relations, 1949 (A Jurisographical Report) 28 3 On Place and Displacement, 1962 (A Jurisographical Exercise Concerning Authors and Their Sources) 52 4 On Books and Institutions, circa 1970 (A Jurisographical Examination of Relational Practices) 73 5 On Personae, 1988 (A Jurisographical Study of Theoretical Relations) 95 6 On Conducts of Life (A Feminist Jurisography, 2022) 122 Index 139 Acknowledgments I pay my respects to the custodians and Elders – past, present, future – of the Wurundjeri peoples of the Kulin nation, on whose land much of this book was written. I also pay my respects to the custodians and Elders – past, present, future – of the Meintangk people, on whose land the book was finished. I wish to convey to all my sincere gratitude for your hospitality. I thank Taylor and Francis for permission to use aspects of the following published essays in Chapters One, Two, Three and Four: Ann Genovese (2013) ‘Inheriting and Inhabiting the Pleasures and Duties of Our Own Existence: The Second Sex and Feminist Jurisprudence’ Australian Feminist Law Journal 38/1: 41–57 DOI:10.1080/13200968.2013.10854482. Ann Genovese (2014) ‘On Australian feminist tradition: three notes on conduct, inheritance and the relations of historiography and jurisprudence’ Journal of Australian Studies 38/4: 430–444 DOI:10.1080/14443058.2014.954137. Ann Genovese and Shaun McVeigh (2015) ‘Nineteen eighty three: a jurisographic report on Commonwealth v Tasmania’ Griffith Law Review 24/1: 68–88 DOI:10.1080/10383441 .2015.1022891. I thank the publishers and editors of the journal Law Text Culture for p ermission to use aspects of the following essay in Chapter Three: Ann Genovese (2016) ‘About Libraries: A Jurisographer’s Notes on Lives Lived With Law (in London and Sydney)’ Law Text Culture 20/1: 33–65 DOI:10.1080/13200968.2013. 10854482. I thank the Australian Research Council, whose funding of a Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2006 enabled me to begin the work that transformed itself slowly into Feminist Jurisography. I also thank Colin Perrin for his belief that the book was worth publishing, and his patience waiting for the worst of 2020–2021 to be over for the manuscript to be delivered. I also want to thank all the editorial team at Routledge, in particular Naomi Round Cahalin, for their hard work and assistance. I would like to thank all my wonderful students, from whom I have learned so much during the long period of researching and writing this book. I am particularly indebted to my current and former PhD students, and the scholars Acknowledgments ix who have worked alongside me as tutors in my subjects, all of whom have been important interlocutors, and always my imagined audience. Three former students (now doing incredible work in their own projects and fields) were generous enough to agree to be my research assistants during the long haul. Erica Millar, Claire Oppermann, Cinzia Pellicciotta: your excellent skills, atti- tude, and good humour at the three different stages of this book made starting, continuing, and finishing a pleasure. I would also like to thank the friends and colleagues whose generous invi- tations (both official and unofficial) to discuss this often-hidden project over the past ten years provided much-needed intellectual camaraderie. The con- versations taught me a lot, and undoubtedly improved my argument, and my spirits. Thanks to: Emma Baeri, Jenny Beard, Elena Caruso, Eddie Cubillo, Margaret Davies, Adriana Di Stefano, John Docker, Shaunnagh Dorsett, Maria Drakopoulou, Debolina Dutta, Julie Evans, the late Virginia Fraser, Rose- mary Hunter, Marett Leiboff, Alex Martinis Roe, Crystal McKinnon, Mark McMillan, Jenny Morgan, Linda Mulcahy, Connal Parsley, Kim Rubenstein, Kristen Rundle, Margaret Thornton, Christopher Tomlins, Karin Van Marle, Scott Veitch, and Kevin Walton. The following friends are also integral to how I have lived with this project, and contributed in countless ways: Theodora Beatty, Andrew Burrow, Anne Davies, Julie Evans, Susy Gee, Jennifer Lade, Alexander MacDonald, Living- stone McVeigh, Bess Meredith, Karin Riederer, Peter Rush, Maureen Tehan, Alison Young, and Charlie Young. Thank you all for the solidarity, hospitality, patience, fun, and support. Two people have read every word and walked every step of this project with me, Ann Curthoys and Shaun McVeigh. Without your friendship and faith there would be no book at all. Thank you. Finally, I would like to dedicate this book to my family, with my love and admiration. Mary Genovese, John Genovese, Paul Ronfeldt, Joe Genovese Ronfeldt, and Sam Genovese Ronfeldt: vi ringrazio, per tutto. Ann Genovese, May 2022