On the Liberal Promise: A Conversation

Abstract

Margaret Thornton’s The Liberal Promise was published in 1990.1 In this interview, conducted at the ANU College of Law on 3 February 2015, Margaret Thornton discusses with Ann Genovese three broad, and interrelated, questions. One is the achievement of The Liberal Promise, the conditions of its production and publication and Margaret’s experience as a feminist scholar through that process. Another is how the book contributes and speaks to an Australian feminist jurisprudence. The third concerns the difficulties of addressing the obligations of our own recent feminist past — when it is so close, yet also difficult to see and hard to record. Show more