Articulation of demands to the democracy and intellectual production in the women movement during the 1980s in Chile

Abstract

The following article has exploratory nature and seeks to debate about the intellectual production of women organizations during the 1980s in Chile, identifying the platforms on which discussions and participating subjects were articulated. The women movement of opposition to the dictatorship by having inclusive and pluralistic characteristics, allowed the dialogue between women engaged in the intellectual production and those organized like “pobladoras” women. From that dialogue, the identification of diverse repressive spaces that intensifies with the civic-military dictatorship emerged, which articulate and tense at the moment of debating around the limit between public and private spaces, propounding the private as a political affair which requires democratic transformations. Based on that, we propose that the generation of knowledge is closely linked to the key axes by which the demands for democracy from women’s movement were structured, so that intellectual production enriched with the experience of intervention and dialogue with “pobladoras”.