Madres, ciudadanas y trabajadoras. Organizaciones y demandas de las mujeres comunistas y socialistas de Chile en el siglo XX

Abstract

The triumph of Salvador Allende on September 4, 1970, was the fruit of a long struggle of the popular sectors and the parties of the Chilean left during much of the 20th century. Within that alliance, popular and left-wing women played an important role, most of the time invisible in the global movement. The objective of this work is to investigate the historical roots of female political participation over the course of the century and analyze their political commitment from the perspective of the organization and its demands, which are crystallized in the Unidad Popular government project. Our interest is to know about their militancy, their ways of doing and thinking about politics, as well as the obstacles and prejudices that they had to overcome to become political leaders. We understand this process as a longer-term phenomenon, and of a collective nature, and notice a continuity of demands, discourses and forms of organization, which are articulated in at least three axes: Their condition as working women, mothers and anti-fascist militants, who intersect and build a program for the women of Chile.