Nacionalidad y mujeres en las constituciones de México

Abstract

Through an historical analysis of the Mexican Constitution on nationality matters, it is evident how the constitutional speech of law, with a seemingly neutral language, was excluding explicitly women but not implicitly because it needed them as an instrumental element in the construction of nationality and therefore of the nation. The constitutional law was reproducing gender, when contemplating to the women only in their character of procreators, mothers and wives; the inherent status given to the women, which denotes and outlines the prevailing gender relations in the society of that period.