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This paper discusses pre-Columbian indigenous women's writing, the relationships with 'oraliture' and the written word in urban Mapuche women's narratives. It points to the role of memory, Mapuzungun and spirituality in performance, as well as the aesthetic experience of nature in landscapes that link the poetics of pre-colonial indigenous women's narratives with those of the urban present as a new anti-colonial and anti-patriarchal narrative. This continuity and (dis)continuity presents a narrative that is maintained in poetry in the urban context to this day. This acts as a cross-border position that forms the 'champurria' identity in order to relate to other peoples, and at the same time it is the performance that the Mapuche woman performs with spirituality, nature and Mapuzungun. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to review the feminist movement, thought and politics that have taken great strength among Latin American women, mainly young women, who have taken to the streets raising their voices to view the violence they suffer daily in all public and private Spaces in which they operate. This chronology seeks to give an account of how feminist theorizations have influenced the consolidation of an explanatory baggage about women's reality. A look at what happened in Mexico with feminism is provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the novel entitled The Autobiography of my mother by Caribbean writer Jamaica Kincaid. An analysis of some of the characteristics of the genre known as "Bildungsroman" concludes that this novel does not belong to that genre. It specifically suggests that the Bildungsroman novel deals with the history of a young male and white character that undergoes a development process accompanied by a mentor until he is able to settle into his rightful social role. On the contrary, Xuela, the protagonist of the novel, is a Caribbean girl growing in a post-colonial world where she rebels against the racial and gender categories imposed on her. Based on José Santiago Fernández' reflections on comparisons between Bildungsroman and colonialism, and Gayle Rubin's and Luce Irigaray's theory of gender and psychoanalysis, this paper analyzes the social models present in the novel and the resources used by Xuela to reject them. This is what precludes the incorporation of this novel into the Bildungsroman genre. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper analyzes the Argentine National Law No. 26.782, which includes free surgery for breast reconstruction of women who underwent mastectomy after a diagnosis of breast cancer, implying coverage by the public health system. The Law, approved in pursuit of "recovering body harmony" or "restoring emotional well-being", calls for an analysis of the assumptions that justify and sustain its sanction. We pay particular attention to rethink the place of the body, from its active role in the surrounding social life, materialized in the case analyzed. We reflect in this field on the normative matrices for the production of gendered corporalities. We support in this direction, the paradoxical role of the State, which on the one hand guarantees rights in access to certain surgeries and simultaneously produces corporalities regulated in relation to certain hegemonic ideals of femininity, of the healthy and the pathological. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents an analysis of the books El cántaro fresco (1920) by Juana de Ibarbourou and Luz y sombra (1903) by Ana Roqué, considering the cultural field (Bourdieu 1994; 2002) in which these works and authors are registered. Given women's writing exclusion of the public space, especially during the first half of the twentieth century in Latin America and the Caribbean, the proposal of this paper is to revise the strategies that both authors use to construct their discourses that incorporate counter-hegemonic expressions. In this way, it is established that the thematization of childhood and adolescence is a strategy to incorporate subversive discourses, using the codes that legitimize the participation in the literary field and, at the same time, enabling its transformation without destroying them completely. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tackles the current collective logics that, uncoupling modern sexual order, question our eventual heteronormative naturalizations on sexuality. It distinguish and points out some of their mechanisms that, as they disjoint the identity totalizations of sex-desire-gender-practices-plaisures-accounts, they do not disjonit all these dimensions at once nor the same way in every singular situation. It shows possible tensions between collective logics of sexuality and the specific psychoanalytic significant logics . It promotes thinking- in-between those tensions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a journey for a set of photographs, videos and audio records, passing through the neighborhoods of Santiago, by the marches, emblematic institutions and some chilean photographer's studios . The registration of these records, somehow fed to present information about the past becoming memory files. Gathered in the Pedro Lemebel's exhibition ARDER, these records relate to the events of the recent past that have damaged the collective memory, an unresolved damage on which bears emphasizing. So these visual, audiovisual and sound works, considered as files, open space to experience the past from other senses and reactivates the experience of the energy of social transformation during the dictatorship, boosted by the struggle for human rights. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the 2011-2012 a sociological research was conducted about the problem of abortion in Chile, which sought to analyze the changes in the discourses of women of different generations who resorted to the practice. This paper presents and deepens around a dimension that emerges from the results: the establishment of the competent moral subject. Through its conceptualization it is possible to account for the difficulties that supposed to women the exercise of their moral autonomy, deciding the termination of a pregnancy on their own criteria, in an evaluative and ambivalent process, overcoming the barriers imposed by lawful and putting in question the androcentric social order that places them as unable to decide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Disputes on abortion have been revived with the current project to legalize it. It has been sent by the President Michelle Bachelet, the only one from the Executive Power since the return of democracy. Despite many efforts from parliamentarians for this cause, the political discussion in Chile remains co-opted by the dominance of moral and patriarchal discourse which defends the right of the product of fertilization against the right of women to decide about their bodies and therefore the possibility of rejecting maternity or its conditions. This paper analyzes the development of legislation on this subject from the sociology of law and a feminist perspective. From the biopolitics, it gives a critical reading of the punishment of abortion as an attack on female autonomy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to explain the process of receiving /appropiation of feminist ideas that took place in the argentinean political and cultural comlplex in the '70s. From the margins of the field and through the work of its the introducer: journalists, writers, artists, activists all, this body of ideas scattered and unsystematic tried permeate the core of the issues that were at the center of debates and discussions. From the conviction that cultural magazines are a privileged viewpoint from which you can follow the ups and downs of the intellectual life of a society (Tarcus, 2007A). Wanted to read in the iconic magazine Crisis tensions between feminist ideas, struggling to be heard and those that occupied the central space of the cultural-political field (Bourdieu, 1999). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The "Frente Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez" (FPMR) was formed as the armed wing of the Communist Party of Chile (CCP) during the military dictatorship, running operationally since 1983. Among its ranks a number of militant women of different social classes were experiences who contributed at different levels to the struggle for national liberation given by the organization. This paper will explore the memories of three former "rodriguistas" militants, in order to analyze the tensions arising from the act of remembering and put into effect, from the present, past experiences and clandestine militants. From where recall, recall how what is stated and forgotten, are elements to be taken into account to make an approach to the memories of female militancy FPRM. It is noteworthy that the work is proposed not only visible militant experience of women, but also problematizes the party structure itself through a reading from the genre of memoirs of "rodriguistas" women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During the last military dictatorship most of the kidnapped women suffered specific forms of violence by their gender. In most cases, these practices were invisibilized in research, in the memories and, until recently, in the reparation policies. Many women have tried to recount their experiences but couldn't find the required conditions of audibility nor in the field of justice, nor within their families and sometimes not even in the human rights organizations. Complaints of sexual violence were part of CONADEP's research and could be heard during the Trial of the Juntas in 1985. However, these criminal charges nor were considered in its specificity in that instance, neither elicited subsequent investigations, even though the offenses against the sexual integrity were excluded from the law of Due Obedience, the Full Stop law and pardons sanctioned during the 80's and 90's. Why the testimonies of these women have not been heard? What difficulties the survivors have found to tell their experiences? In this paper we intend to investigate the changes and continuities in the audibility of these testimonies and the causes of these changes. With that aim I will mainly analyze three interviews I carried out for the documentary "A field of battle, a woman's body" (Fernando Alvarez, 2012). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The context of this paper is the alleged extension to the whole world of a power that Foucault designates as reticular. Power in which we would come to be produced, in the very act of being governed. A power which, by its ability of secluding us towards our bodies, we would prevent us any chance of being a difference sprouted from ourselves. In such a context, drawing a politics of resistance is highly aporetic. The aim of this article is to think how we build a resistance that is safe from being always reducible to anything, a resistance that can persist as difference. Butler with her performative resignification and Foucault with his arts of being, outline a productive resist in which at least it has one sense, although totally contingent, that we can tell "ourselves". But such a statement contingent, would not be able to prevent us of being reduced to bodies nor ours. My place of enunciation, against impotence of these resistances, launches its claim. They are the voices of my sisters and brothers mapuche resisting that power, that show us that we still have another possible resistance: a consistently resisting as a difference from a body ours. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article aims to point out that the notion of sexual and reproductive rights was set up exclusively for the body of bio-women, excluding gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual, transgender and intersex people of their dogmatic formulation. From the critical analysis of Beatriz Preciado, this paper seeks to show how subversive reappropriation sexual technology provides each individual the autonomy to manage the transformation of his own body according to gender identity freely want to redo. In this context, recognition of sexual and reproductive rights satisfies the desire for recognition of those precarious subjectivities that have been excluded from the scope of protection law. To resist state violence deprives nonnormative gender of their human rights, it requires a political struggle based on equality that enables certain of lives that are worth living and worthy of being mourned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper approaches the problematic of homosexual identities construction build around discursive practices as associated materials with the social breakthrough and simbolic of an homoerotic culture in Santiago from the 1930's. Through of studying the sensationalist press and the corpus of psychoanalysis -fundamental practices of the mass culture- and also the narratives of privacy that articulate a biographic memoir deployed by two principal character of intellectual field: Hernán Díaz Arrieta and Luis Oyarzún, we analyze the main textual and subjective strategies unfold by citizens that carry an "other desire" in the seek of an internal dialog based on the appropriation inappropriate of sexually normalized urban spaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper I explore the filmography of Maria Luisa Bemberg, argentine and feminist filmmaker. The work is divided into two parts and two targets. On one hand, considering that Maria Luisa was a founder of the Feminist Union Argentina (UFA), analyzes their works of the period in order to produce a witness to the experiences of feminist activism in Argentina in the seventies to from the stories recreated by Maria Luisa. The second part is aimed at studying the films produced during the decades of the eighties and nineties, a period in which Maria Luisa Bemberg had left the organized feminist activism but not the commitment to make a feminist film. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reflects on the experience and strengths of girls and adolescents who work as domestic servants in Peru, living in social exclusion and participate in the Movement of Children and Adolescents Organized Workers of Peru (MNNATSOP). This will consider the contributions of prominence Child approach, Sociology of Children and the Gender Perspective as to the sexual division of labour in childhood. We analyse the origin and context of labour migration situations experienced by girls, the invisibility of domestic work, and the role of money, discrimination and violation of their rights, how they express gender roles, expectations and ways involved in social organizations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As women began to increase their participation in the labor market, the economic literature began to devote more attention to the differential treatment they receive. In that sense, the discrimination by employers has been identified as one of the possible causes that might explain the differential treatment between genders in the labor market. The purpose of the present paper is to analyze whether there are gender preferences on the part of employers when it comes to filling a certain position. Hence, labor demand was analyzed according to four key variables: categories of the positions demanded, skills needed, academic level achieved, and maximum age required. The obtained results suggest marked preferences of employers towards the male gender for covering managerial positions, gender segregation of skills and university studies requested, and more inequality for women in their access to employment according to the maximum age required. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper tackles the femicide problem as the most extreme form of sexist terrorism. It genealogises the concept since its inauguration in 1974 and points out the debates on this matter. Based on some results of the research "Análisis de la mortalidad femenina por causas externas y su relación con la violencia contra las mujeres", the article offers an updated situation sight about femicide problem in Argentine which enables a visualization of its weight and gravity in the wider range of gender's inequalities. In this concern, this work particularly visualizes de suicide-homicide tension in connection with the lack of clearness the statistics presents when they name this two types of women violent deaths; the modification of suicide-homicide statistic ratio when it comes to women death and the fact that the two most frequent women suicide modes do not match with the suicide modes found in official registered data. From this point, the text questions about the possibility of different ways of covering up femicides. It would be a particular connection between patriarchy ferociousness and State abandonment. From this perspective, including femicide problem in Human Rights field is considered as a need. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we are interested in investigating two issues that have been studied in relation to hegemonic discourses of eugenics and its responsibility in building a model of female sexuality, but have been meagerly investigated in other locutions. So, here we analyze the eugenics and neo-Malthusian anarchist discourse with the intention of placing it as a locution that, in contrast to the hegemonic, led to the sexual freedom of women. Our focus for this in the production of two doctors anarchists who, with great display until the second half of the twentieth century, acted within the anarchist movement nationally and internationally. These doctors, far from the dominant ideas of the time, defended innovative proposals on sex education, birth control, conscious and voluntary motherhood and sexual freedom of women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focusing on the political image of the fetus is working on land that is crossed by ethical discourses, readings genetic and political positions. This text questions from the aesthetics of photography, feminist theory and genetic studies, what the images show fetuses displayed on screens worldwide reproduced and ethical responses to these “scans” would have on the onlooker. It develops, in turn an analysis of fetal erythroblastosis comprising scientific contexts/social that led to the enunciation of this condition, re-reading her the principles of Ontogeny and Phylogeny Ernest Haeckel introduced in the nineteenth century. This paper addresses the political image of the fetus, social assessments and readings that carries genetic intertwine throughout biological discourse. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is a brief analysis of creative thinking considered from the artistic perspective. For this approach the role of the creative subject as fundamental to art that gets made effective, noting how this individual has been shaped through history thanks to the denial of other subjects, and among women artists. In this sense the artistic creation has been traditionally held by men, and they have moved to their works that was dominant in society, being thus the ratio of women to art has been conditioned by a sexist [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper suggests a critical analysis of Michelle Bachelet's speeches at the 2005 presidential campaign. On the one hand, in the general context of the "representativeness crisis" could be highly profitable to relate the words "woman" and "politics" with the demand of an "other" or "new" way of doing politics. On the other hand, in the "post" context of the Latin American dictatorships, the rhetoric of "national unity" question the civilizing task of the democratic reconstruction in a heteronormative way. I will place my analysis there where both contexts meet each other to propose some ideas about the strategic discourse of women's moral supremacy. I understand this discourse as a key to read an ideology of time and difference, that reproduce the public-private paradox as a limit of the feminist politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]