Abstract This article excavates and analyses an early, feminist conversation about law that emerged from foundational texts on Gender and Development (GAD). Rather than starting from current, law-heavy GAD practices, it goes backwards to see what, if anything, some canonical texts published between 1970 and 1989 said about law. My aim is to offer an account of legally-relevant GAD theorising written before the current consensus about law reform as a tool had solidified, and – in so doing – to unsettle that consensus and identify some intellectual inheritances that might offer us an alternative way forward.

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法律，性别与发展：有力的困扰

摘要本文挖掘并分析了有关性别与发展（GAD）的基础文献中有关法律的早期女性主义对话。它不是从当前繁重的GAD惯例开始，而是倒退去看看1970年至1989年之间出版的一些规范文本对法律的看法。我的目的是要在当前关于法律改革的共识作为一种工具得以巩固之前，写出与法律相关的GAD理论的论述，并以此为由动摇这一共识，并确定一些知识遗产，这可能为我们提供另一种前进的道路。