Campesinas y derechos humanos: claves para entender la ciudadanía en México.

Abstract

This paper is a reflection which provides theoretical clues to understand human rights and peasant womens citizenship in Mexico. From a conceptual perspective, the concept of citizenship is placed within the framework of the development of modernity, capitalism and birth of nationstates. In general, different existing definitions of citizenship are related to power relationships and how they are linked. From Liberal and Republican traditions, and communitarism´s ideas, citizenship is defined as a process linked to the concepts of state, democracy, public and private spheres, social imaginary, social movement and political culture. Women´s rights and the fulfillment of their citizenship are debated from a feminist perspective. Feminist movement is defined as inclusive, demanding liberation from male dominance; it is described how the proposals made by feminists have transcended the original perception of citizen´s rights, that can only be done based on concrete experiences of women´s lives. From this theoretical debate, human rights and
women`s citizenship are defined as a historical process where power relations are in conflict, articulating demands according to space and time: individual and collective; regional, national and global.