Feminism activism in dictatorship: Bulletins of women organizations

Abstract

This article analyzes the discourses of the feminist and women's movement elaborated during the Chilean civic-military dictatorship. With this view, we analyzed bulletins produced by women's collectives belonging to women settler organizations, militants from banned left-wing political parties, and women linked to a feminist NGO in Santiago in the 80s. The results show that the bulletins were a form of political activism sought to resist and transform a hegemonic order through an emancipatory thought that denounced the double authoritarianism that they lived in the country and at home. This form of communicational activism presented ruptures, continuities, and tensions with politics, knowledge, and feminist discussions of the time.