Hacia una Concepción Multicultural de los Derechos de las Mujeres: Reflexiones desde México

reformas-del-estadoIn this chapter, I would like to reflect on the way in which discourses and practices around women’s rights have played a role of globalized localisms, (that is, it is about local knowledge that has been globalized) by trying to impose visions on a free and rational individual, as a subject of law, and conceptualizations of equality and freedom, which have their roots in a specific place in time and space: in the European Enlightenment and in this sense, they can be considered as local knowledge that has been successfully globalized. Over time, they have acquired the character of localized globalisms, (that is, they have become transnational practices that impact local conditions) by becoming imperatives of international organizations that, with the intermediation of national States and Feminist Non-Governmental Organizations, have imposed a homogenizing conception of gender equality.

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