The main purpose of Antígona is to analyse the development of women’s rights with gender perspective. The legislation and public policies in Spain are being built upon different definitions which are needed to clarify and specify, as well as the characteristics and content of the right of women in our country. Furthermore, it’s necessary to adopt a gender perspective in front of the Law and to do a review of the legal categories that enable show its shortcomings.

For Antígona is key to understand and explain in gender perspective the content, definitions, criteria and parameters from where are building women’s rights in legislation, of the jurisprudence and public policies at the local, community and national level. In this way, the group’s research is geared specifically to analyze the mechanisms used to create a gender perspective in the legal field, to identify the practices that are generating legal and social spaces, and describe the process of creation and development of the gender public policies in Spain.

• Articles
• Books and book chapters
• Projects reports
• Research reports
• Contributions to congresses