La ampliación de los derechos civiles de las mujeres en Chile (1925) y Argentina (1926)

this article offers a perspective of hybridization of disciplines and a gender perspective that thrusts a cross-check of private law and public law to explain the irregular advance of citizenship in chile and argentina in the 1920's. in both countries there were laws that extended women's civil status. these laws were part of a legislative process carried out by political parties and social movements. in both cases the reforms expressed a broader process of social change, of rising confrontation of the working class movement and increasing participation of women in the labour market, both working class women and middle class professionals. in this context, the reform was limited and it was carried out simultaneously with the advance of social rights and in the name of an ideal woman: the mother and the wife. congruently, the principle of authority of the man within family relations and the exclusion of women concerning the right to vote were left untouched.