The aim of this paper is to discuss the relationship between Citizenship, Gender and Democracy. The focus is on the trajectories and political and theoretical dimensions of Citizenship that crossed the modernity as gendered value. This trajectory, in turn, generates various types of questions and criticism. Citizenship balances thus between a biased past and a tense present. There not seems to be the case, however, to dismiss it, but to think of the possibilities to overcome their gender bias, while this perspective can be reincorporated as part of its values. The text structures as follows: it presents some preliminary considerations about general political categories that articulate and are present in contemporary democracy. Following, discusses some incongruities that constitute the subject/actor citizen, when designed in a gender perspective, and especially in its assumption that feasible as a legitimate feature of Representative Democracy. With this intention is to reflect theoretically on some constitutive tensions of citizenship when it is analyzed from a gender perspective, at the same time trying to indicate possible analytical outputs discussed by the literature.
gender and rights; citizenship; democracy; political representation
