Legal status of Spanish women in the 19th century: an official discrimination
Abstract
Legislation constitutes a reliable source of information about the thinking and behavior of the society to which it is addressed. In the 19th century, a codifying phenomenon occurred in Spain in civil and criminal matters that had a specific legal status for women that was substantially different from men. Both show, in other factors, the deplorable prevailing consideration of the nature and capacities of women and the supremacy of deeply patriarchal political, social and cultural criteria, which inevitably influences the work of the legislator. However, this discrimination is not a new product of modernity, until it constitutes an inheritance that the current legislation prolongs.
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