Tuesday 28 April 2009, by Encarna Bodelón, Gemma Nicolás
«...the contents of the present number of the review state the aspect that highlights the historical unequal relation between men and women through the legal domination tools. It refers to what strictly speaking (despite there are some controversies) is called in the specific language of feminism as «gender relations »...
...Feminism or feminisms have been shaped, from the mid-19th century, as a claimer movement. In this sense they have been responsible of the revaluation that from then the feminine condition has been acquiring. These movements, together with the workers’ one should be identified as social movements, and consequently, they must be recognized by the theories that tackle their activities...
...Nevertheless, the different feminist theories of the 19th and the 20th century, they have obviously been, even insisting in the categories of the liberal Law, extraordinary vigorous in order to put in the centre of the criticism of the legal theories and practices that still today interpret the Law in a discriminatory way... (From the Presentation, by Roberto Bergalli)»
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