Derechos de las mujeres y derechos humanos : un camino entre igualdad y autonomía

The consolidation of the rights of women requires a deep and profound review of two concepts crucial to the anthropological and philosophical foundation of human rights: the idea of individual autonomy and the principle of equality. Two notions that in the traditional liberal interpretation favoured the exclusion of women from rights speech and the public sphere, and confined them to the space of irrationality. Although the nineteenth-century suffrage and liberal feminism favoured access to citizenship and equality before the law, and socialist feminism merged its release with the class, none of these moves could end the structures of domination and marginalization that women suffered. Only after the decade of the sixties, the women acquired a chance to think of themselves independently from males, reformulating in terms of gender the categories with which had been conceived, and raising, in this way, a philosophy for rights more inclusive and liberating.