Introduction: Female Perspectives in Commercial and Consumer Law

Over the past several decades, female perspectives on commercial and consumer law have played an increasingly important role in the legal literature on credit, debt, and commerce. On the one hand, now that women are permitted a place in legal academia, many more women have made contributions to these scholarly fields.1 But also, the literature has increasingly engaged feminist thought, highlighting the challenges women face interacting with credit.2 As one prominent example of the special risks that women experience, consider fringe consumer credit markets. The majority of people taking out