Muses, impostores and embroiderers: intellectual property from a feminist perspective

Abstract

Feminist critique of law has insisted that the masculine domination over law has imprinted it with a male chauvinist historical essence in its content and application, as well as, to some extent, in the legal form. However, intellectual property rights have rarely been referred to in this critique. What kinds of questions do we need to make to intellectual property from a feminist perspective? The aim of this article is precisely to offer a feminist perspective of intellectual property that explains both the elements through which it shapes the fields of art and science, as well as the gender bias that underline and are reproduced in these fields and in the corresponding intellectual property tools.