Feminist and Queer Legal Theories: Gender and Sexuality as Useful Categories for the Critique of Law

The article proposes a mapping of feminisms and queer positionalities, demonstrating how gender and sexuality are useful categories of legal analysis and critique. It articulates the main discussions and dilemmas of feminist and queer struggles and theories, seeking to identify how their categories, methods and strategies offer a privileged and powerful position for legal criticism.

Keywords:
Legal Critique; Feminist Theory; Queer Theory