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Jill Gentile's Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire is one of three books to have come out in recent years that yoke law and psychoanalysis to generate new understandings of the modern subject and the modern state. Beyond their shared methodological commitment to combining psychoanalytic and legal theory, these three books have a number of other other things in common—not least, a critical perspective on gender and a keen awareness of the masculine bias present in both psychoanalysis and law. The first of these books, Law, Psychoanalysis, Society: Taking the Unconscious Seriously (2014), was written by Maria Aristodemou, a professor at London's Birkbeck School of Law. Aristodemou's previous book, Law and Literature: Journeys from Her to Eternity (2000), argued that women's reproductive and nurturing capacities pose a threat to masculinity, which is duplicated in the challenge posed by literature to law. Her latest book renounces her earlier aspiration to use literature (coded as emotional and female) to overcome the “long exclusion of the feminine” from the “empire” of law (coded as rational and male). Compared to its predecessor, it is less explicitly concerned with gender. But, like her earlier work, it