‘We Could Not Imagine Their Home Could Be Our Home’: Towards a Feminist Legal Geography of home

Clough, Beverley ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7640-1378 and Zeffert, Henrietta ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8494-4855 (2025) ‘We Could Not Imagine Their Home Could Be Our Home’: Towards a Feminist Legal Geography of home. Social and Legal Studies. ISSN 0964-6639

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Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a feminist legal geographic approach to home. This is a generative framework for articulating and theorising the relationship between law and home. Integrating feminist socio-legal theory and feminist geography, this perspective brings feminist legal and geographic theory to the mainstream law and home literature and illuminates the many ways law is entwined with home. Through three case studies, we underscore the analytical timeliness of feminist approaches to law and home by illustrating shifts in politics and ideology and demonstrate the ways in which feminist legal geography reveals common threads that link together seemingly disparate or disconnected cases. Crucially, our approach drives a shift in how responsibility and accountability for structural and systemic violence is identified and understood through the concept of home, and the role of resistance to violence in this.