(This is a draft of a talk and not to be cited without my permission. It was ‘written to be spoken’ so apologies for the colloquialisms)       This talk is a product of bewilderment – my own confusion – when confronted by a group of feminists (a couple of whom I had counted as friends) who were making alliances with right-wing, conservative, evangelical groups (for example, Hands Across the Aisle Coalition, The Heritage Foundation, Women’s Liberation Front (WoLF), the Allianc

Kennedy’s great passion is for law. She was called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn in 1972. At the age of only 24 years, just out of pupillage,...