La crítica feminista al derecho: de la lucha por la igualdad al cuestionamiento de la identidad como ideal normativo

Abstract

This article shows the most important questions that the feminism (or feminisms) asks to Law, as a social system and speech. In a special way, it analyzes the different positions that the feminist critique assumes about the possibility of using Law as an instrument to change the situation of women. Moreover, even though the article regards the importance of women´s struggle to face discrimination and achieve equality, it shows how the use of essentialist categories, such as “men” and “women” could signify, at the same time, the exclusion of the rights of those who do not fit on that normative ideal.