Género y constitucionalismo. Una mirada feminista al derecho constitucional colombiano

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to assess whether a constitutional law has been an effective way to develop the gender agenda in Colombia after the constitutional change of 1991. To that extend, this paper analyzes the forms of action that women have used for being at the constitutional stage, the mechanisms that have been used to instrumentalize it and the results obtained in three scenarios: the National Constituent Assembly, the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court and NGO activism in the city of Bogotá. It also offers a critical reading of the vision of constitutional law as a tool to distribute power between genders. The conclusion presents a skeptical view to the use that has been given to the law and the constitutional court in the development of the gender agenda in Colombia.