1991 Colombian Constitution, Quota Act, and feminist movement: the role of law in the emergence of mobilizing structures

Abstract

This paper highlights how little conceptualization there is on the relationship between the use of legal mobilization and social movements’ mobilizing structures. To contribute to such theorization, it proposes a hypothesis of the impact of the 1991 Colombian Constitution on the feminist movement. Through the case study of the campaign around the Quota Act, it argues that the most important impact was the generation of meeting arenas for the emergence of new mobilizing structures.