SEXUALITY HOW TO COPE WITH THE LAW IF YOU'RE NOT 100% CONVENTIONALLY HETEROSEXUAL heterosexual write JOHN forms of action directed at actually changing legal or semi-s legalsexism In the chapter on employ ment, for example, no mention at all is made of the existing gay trade union groups.
As a result, the analysis of sexism remains hanging in the air: although a good prog ramme orrevson orc law I proposed, there is no indication of how this might be fought for particularly around individual cases.
A second weakness is in the discussion of the apparatus o the law. One of its most striking points is the massive area discretion possessed by the courts — nearly always used in a reactionary way. Yet the book's conclusion proposes to tackle this simply by a campaign of education This is completely utopian: as long as the legal apparatus is Cominated ovacass ual has c direct interest in the oppressior will ot women COULLS continue the kind of appallin practices documented in thi book.
The Law and Sexuality" by Steve Cohen, Stephanie Green.
Janet Slade, Maggie Walker.
(Grass Roots Book, £1)
1978 Fourth