From mutualism to the Belén de Sárraga Anti-clerical Women´s Centre: trajectory of the women`s socio-political participation in Iquique (1890-1918)

Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the socio-political participation of women in the labor movement, between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, based on the experience of the Belén de Sárraga Anti-clerical Women’s Center, from an historical perspective. The sources used correspond mainly to the working press of the period, archives of the Municipality and other documents of the public administration. The results obtained are a balance of the transformations carried out in the forms of grassroots women’s organization, in the process of politicization.