Legal feminisms: contributions for the analysis of the role of law and gender in Latin America

Abstract

This article asks about the role of law in the configuration and articulation of gender, based on the systematization and analysis of the development of legal feminisms in Latin America. At first, there will be a journey through the beginnings of the main currents of legal feminism, recognizing in turn the criticisms that have been made. Subsequently, the theoretical advances produced in Latin America will be presented. This will show that even taking into account the influence of the legal feminisms of the Global North, in our case there are theoretical proposals that, in addition to revealing the differences, gaps and disagreements with the legal field, seek to build alternative proposals to the law or an alternative law that is anchored to social, cultural and economic realities. It is concluded that legal feminisms in Latin America have not only limited themselves to carrying out exercises of appropriation and reformulation of theoretical proposals already elaborated, as they have also demonstrated the ability to produce their own
thoughts, where the link with the territories and interdisciplinarity have been present.