@article{Gedalof_2018, title={Academic Reflection – Narratives of Justice and the Welfare State in Times of Austerity}, volume={8}, url={https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/feministsatlaw/article/view/664}, DOI={10.22024/UniKent/03/fal.664}, abstractNote={Considers the continuing relevance of chapter 2 of Nicola Lacey’s <em>Unspeakable Subjects</em> (1998), on ’Theories of Justice and the Welfare State’, to welfare reform within the contemporary neo-liberal state in Britain. Concludes that Lacey’s concern in that chapter, to open ideas of social justice to a recognition of collective differences and to challenge the public/private divide that stabilises and reinforces normative gender, is ever-more urgent in a political moment that refuses precisely these recognitions.}, number={2}, journal={feminists@law}, author={Gedalof, Irene}, year={2018}, month={Dec.} }