Las instituciones del Sistema Moderno-Colonial de Género y su materialización en la primera Constitución de la República del Ecuador

Abstract

The Discovery of America undertook a new model of world power as modern, capitalistic, Euro-centered and Colonial. Within this new model, the colonial ethnocentrism, the universal racial classification, and the needs of the debuting capitalist system, defined a particular universe of intersubjective relationships of domination, exploitation and dispute between its participants. The racial invention socially reclassified the colonized populations according to their relationship with the so-called pure-blooded. New geo-cultural identities were defined: whites, mestizos, Indians and blacks. However, this classification left aside certain intersectionalities such as race, gender and class with respect to the female population. This is how the modern/colonial system through its patriarchal institutions, heterosexual and Euro-centered on gender, subordinated the colonized women who were not with white-bourgeois in every aspect of their life. This genderized and racialized construction was incorporated into the first ecuadorian Constitution and resulted in a socio-political structure mainly classist, racist and patriarchal since the dawn of republican life. From the methodology of the speech analysis in support of the legal hermeneutic, the principal constitutional provisions referred to the State-Nation, citizenship and democracy, as well as fundamental institutions of a dominated Modern State were analyzed. Under governmental discursive rationalities of segregation, oppression, and stratified control, a Modern Colonial System is institutionalized where the distinctions of race, class, and gender would set the tone of the new Republican project.