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“The women who are here and can speak”: The political voice of the Chilean collective Women for Life (1983-1985)

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No. 22 (2024): Diciembre
https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2024.77298

Abstract

This research is framed within the Chilean dictatorship context of the 1980s, a period marked by the emergence of various resistance movements against the military regime. In this scenario, the Women for Life (MPLV) collective emerged, a group remembered for its efforts to restore democracy and defend human rights. This study examines the public interventions of the MPLV to determine the voice that constitutes the political and social identity of the collective. Through the analysis of the discursive practices employed by the MPLV, it is concluded that the collective was able to articulate an incipiently feminist voice, contributing to the construction of a political identity capable of resisting the repressive context of the dictatorship, and to the positioning of women as a new political subject in the struggle for democracy.

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political voice, glottopolitics, CDA, feminism, human rights

Author Biography

Natalia Villarroel Torres, University of New York

Sociolingüista y doctoranda en el programa Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures of The City University of New York (CUNY).

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Villarroel Torres, N. (2025). “The women who are here and can speak”: The political voice of the Chilean collective Women for Life (1983-1985). Revista Punto Género, (22), pp. 232–267. https://doi.org/10.5354/2735-7473.2024.77298
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Facultad de Ciencias Sociales
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