Women, Power and Autonomy—Rights, Respect and Representation in Law and Society brings together the works of academics and activists engaged in the struggle to reinstitute power and autonomy for women. The contributors and the countries they represent and about which they write include India, Australia, the United States, Nigeria, Portugal, Pakistan, Sweden and the United Kingdom, with some crossing boundaries and citizenship. Their areas of expertise include English literature and literary criticism, law, politics and political science, philosophy, history, rights campaigning, linguistics, theology, film and film criticism. This Introduction explores the issues of power, rights and autonomy as they arise in each of the chapters and draws the links between subjects addressed in each contribution—the way in which rights, respect and representation intersect in family law, marriage (including forced marriage and under-age or child marriage) and divorce, property rights (in law and in literature), widowhood and child custody, faith, financial rights and government funding, abortion, surrogacy, prostitution and pornography, prison and politics. Linkages between women’s representation in politics and religious institutions, in finance and financial institutions, film, literature and social media are considered together with writing aimed at the teenage-girl and its potential for politicisation and engendering feminism and feminist independence and identity, and a critique of the categorisation of writing fixed firmly in the literary cannon. Campaigning for women’s entry to non-traditional jobs and corporate management is attested to, alongside campaigns for women’s rights in prison, programs granting bail to keep women out of prison, and action to rectify failures in resourcing women’s services, particularly those dedicated to Black and minoritised women.