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Sweden represents utopia for many women's activists around the world. The article tries to explain the policies that created the vision of a women-friendly welfare state. Global gender gap indexes have placed Sweden in the top five for many years. The success is measured in a high level of labour market participation and education, instituted policies for the reconciliation of work and family life and women's bodily and physical integrity. Even though many feminists do not wish to see any dark stains on the glorified picture of Sweden as a gender equal society, a critical examination of remaining gender-biased practices such as the uneven distribution of economic and political power and the gendered segregation of the labour market is also be presented. Another critical aspect is the exclusionary effects of the Swedish gender equality policies. Despite its critical stance the article defends a large part of the strong and comprehensive structural base for achieving gender equality that has become a role-model for many feminists.

In this comparative analysis of the UK and Sweden, we consider, if inherited wealth is most deserving of redistributive taxation, then what lessons, if any, may be learned from the difficult paths faced by this tax in these countries. We conclude that the political momentum behind the Swedish family business was distinct, and, possibly, capable of travel to the UK.

1. Reflecting the epistemology of law : exploiting boundaries / Asa Gunnarsson, Eva-Maria Svensson and Margaret Davies -- 2. Boundary-work in legal scholarship / Eva-Maria Svensson -- 3. An apparent boundary between law and politics / Asa Gunnarsson -- 4. Legal texts as discourses / Johanna Niemi-Kiesilainen, Paivi Honkatukia and Minna Ruuskanen -- 5. Beyond constructed borders : on child perspectives in the Swedish Aliens Act and the limits of law / Eva Nilsson -- 7. Challenging the heteronormativity of law / Gorel Granstrom -- 8. Social insurance law : the core of Swedish welfare law / Ruth Mannelqvist -- 9. Challenging on fundamental norm in labour law : the exception of the employer's family and home / Catharina Calleman -- 10. Exclusion of solo mothers in the welfare state / Lena Wennberg -- 11. Gender equality and the diversity of rights and obligations in Swedish social citizenship / Asa Gunnarsson -- 12. Notes towards an optimistic feminism : a long view / Margaret Davies.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introductory Remarks on Nordic Law and Gender Identities -- Part I Constructing Equality and Identity -- 2 Transformative Nordic Welfarism: Liberal and Communitarian Trends in Family and Market Law -- 3 Sex Equality: Changes in Politics, Jurisprudence and Feminist Legal Studies -- 4 The Responsible Self: Relational Gender Construction in the History of Finnish Law -- Part II Welfare and Care -- 5 The Changing Position of the Individual in Danish Welfare Law -- 6 From Marriage Contract to Labour Contract: Effects on Care Duties and Care Rights -- 7 The Autonomous Taxpayer and the Dependent Caregiver: The Effects of the Division Between Tax Law and Social Law -- Part III Constructions of Gender in Labour Law -- 8 Collective and Individual Strategies: Women's and Men's Wages -- 9 The Enforcement of EU Sex Discrimination Law in Scandinavia -- 10 Doctors and Nurses: The Gendered Right to Practise -- 11 The ECJ's Conditional Release of Women -- Part IV Integrity and its Violations -- 12 Criminal Law or Social Policy as Protection Against Violence -- 13 The "Good Battered Woman": A Silenced Defendant -- 14 The Unbounded Body of the Law of Rape: The Intrusive Criterion of Non-Consent -- 15 Women's Peace: A Criminal Law Reform in Sweden