LAW AND SEXUALITY
THE EVOLUTION OF WOMANHOOD THROUGHOUT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.35919/rbsh.v22i1.245Keywords:
Law, Gender, Sexuality, Sexual PracticesAbstract
This work represents a reading of the situation of women in the early twentieth century in the field of sexuality and the successive laws that contributed to the emergence of the modern woman. This is a literature review involving Rights Treaties, Legislation and works on the topic. The Civil Code of 1916 proposed a patriarchal order in which women were considered inferior. Sexuality and sexual practices of women were repressed in both the family and society being subject to legal liability if acting in a manner contrary to socially established morality. Successive changes in the law (Status of Women Married in 1962, Divorce Act, 1977, Civil Code of 2002 among others) have allowed women to assume equal status with men and attain control over their own bodies. Although there is resistance to the new model of women, there have been significant gains in the legal and sexual fields.