Abstract
This paper pretends to reflecte on the trajectory of the feminists movements in Brazil in the approval of the Maria Penha Law. Were analyzed documents of the legislative process that resulted in the law, as well as papers from authorship of the women lawyers and the feminists organizations involved in their elaboration. The resistance of Judiciary to the law it´s a reaction to the feminist perspectives imposed to an androcentric legal order.
Women's movements; Feminist Theories of Law; Maria da Penha Law