The feminist movement as a theory of justice

Abstract

The feminist movement and the political theories that support it, has been presented throughout history as a struggle for equal recognition of rights between men and women and against patriarchy as a prevailing social system where inequalities prevail. John Rawls and his theory of justice seek with his egalitarian liberalism the disappearance of these inequalities in pursuit of a socially just society. Here both theories, the postulates they have in common and their respective criticisms are put into balance. Feminism is also reviewed as a theory of justice from Latin America, with its successes and failures.