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"The legal consciousness regarding gender has been shaped by the relationship between feminist movements and their encounters with law. During the 1940s and 1950s, the first wave of feminist movements in Colombia used a certain language of rights and its connection to gender in order to further their claims. At the same time, both gender and women's rights were emerging as an important part of legal discussions. The disputes between these two scenarios can shed light on historically placing the contested meanings of gender. The language of rights in feminist media, the appropriation of legal jargon by feminist movements, and the discourses coming from the legal field can illustrate how gender was disputed both inside and outside of the law. This paper challenges the idea that legal concepts such as gender are defined or understood exclusively either from outside or from within the law. Instead, it poses that the social language of rights contested the legal discourse regarding gender and ultimately shaped it."--Tomado del Formato de Documento de Grado.