本文從法社會的角度觀察90年代中期以後的女性主義立法行動,論述其對於台灣社會法律發展具有的意義。分析上由三個面向呈現這些意義,分別為重整父權法律並進而探索法理、看見法律的社會實踐並進而深化法治、提出法律中關於權力的問題並進而增進法意識。這三個面向使得作為法律繼受國家的台灣,得以逐漸取得某程度的規範主體性,但也出現一些新的問題,亟待社會各界的努力。這問題包括法理重新建構的困難、法治推動的各方阻力、以及法意識上的落差。最後作者總結從法律多元主義的觀點,提出一個樂觀的女性主義法學,希冀從規範的「法社會創造」之觀點,重新評價女性主義立法行動的積極意義。
This paper intends to explore the influences of feminist legal activism in Taiwan and therefore to theorize feminist action from the perspective of legal pluralism. The three influences are as follows: challenging law as patriarchal, changing law's practice through new institution, and revealing power relationship by legal consciousness raising. Although these three aspects all face their own difficulties to deepen the influences, the author lastly propose an optimistic legal feminism that does not focus on law's social effect or law's power to social change but on the reflexibility and possibility of prompt responses of legal feminism for social problems.