LOS DERECHOS POLÍTICOS DE LA MUJER EN LA EVOLUCIÓN CONSTITUCIONAL URUGUAYA

Abstract

Throughout this paper, the embodiment of political rights of women in Uruguay will be analyzed, over the 19th and the 20th Centuries, and from a legal-political-constitutional perspective. A brief universal journey in relation to the feminist movement will be drafted, in order to later analyze the Uruguayan Constitutions of 1830, 1918 and 1934. Such constitutional analysis will end in 1934 as the constitutional provision regarding citizenship remains unchanged and therefore subsequent Constitutions do no more than to reflect it. From the text of the Constitution, this paper analyze the existing situation at that time, the role of women within Uruguayan society as well as the different stances that arose revolving around the issue of women’s suffrage.