(Universidad de Cuenca, 2016) Mendoza Eskola, Juanita Catalina
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.
