Woman, marriage and motherhood: issues of Private International Law from a gender perspective

Abstract

In the latest times, the fight for achieving the gender equality and for putting an end to the injustices that separates men and women has become a true “revolution” that has invaded practically all social areas. This movement should also remove the principles that inform the solutions of International Private Law. In this paper we analyze from a perspective of gender two institutions that have traditionally been a bastion of patriarchy and whose regulation has been carried out from mainly androcentric considerations: the marriage and the motherhood.