Feminismo pre-ilustradopeticiones de mujeres al Parlamento inglés

Abstract

Between the 16th and 17th centuries, the traditional political-moral hegemonic discourse in England was affected by a pamphlet explosion. Women authors who saw the opportunity to take part in this intertextual dialogue are underestimated, as well as the activists who took the opportunity to address the Parliament using the right of Petition are unknown. These Petitions constitute an epistemological basis of women who, on the one hand, disclosed, from their personal experience, their vested interests, exposed the need to enjoy the same privileges as their male counterparts and participated in the State affairs. By doing so, the female agency becomes an actor, a subject of law and intervenes as such in public opinion. On the other hand, the recognition of their own authority compels to transgress some social conventions and to modulate the norms. The patriarchal context underestimated these contributions, but paradoxically, the discredit accentuated the relationship betweendiscourse and conjuncture, further spreading their request and allowing, progressively, to occupy some spaces attributed to the masculine