She was an important chilean sociologist and feminist activist, she was one of the first women that introduced the study of the genders in her country and one of the foundress of the feminist movement in 1980. Her importance lies in the introduction of the latin american feminism and the expansion of the genders studies in Chile.
Julieta says that ‘democratic practice cannot be conceived without the participation of the woman, there is no democracy without feminism’. Back then women have just gotten the right to vote so the approaches of her were revolutionary in the chilean politics and people; She promoted a feminism theory that talk about the right of social equality in all the fields that women unwrap: ‘Democracy in the country, in the house and in the bed’ becomes the slogan of the articulation of the movement of women in Chile and the entire Latin American.
After the rise of the dictatorship in 1973 Julieta played a fundamental role in the feminist resistance against the crimes and the oppression of the dictator Augusto Pinochet, she was one of the creator of women meeting places and fighting center for the resistance. This is how the Study Center of the women was born, between 1973 and 1983 this center worked through studies, workshops and conferences to mobilize chilean women, or like Julieta said: ‘aspired to be a center of production of the thought and feminist action´. As a politician, Julieta was socialist, so as a feminist her politics were based on the questioning to the traditional left that relegates the women to a second plane in the ordinals Marxist thesis. Julieta reinvigorated the importance of the labor of women in the politics.
Julieta says that ‘democratic practice cannot be conceived without the participation of the woman, there is no democracy without feminism’. Back then women have just gotten the right to vote so the approaches of her were revolutionary in the chilean politics and people; She promoted a feminism theory that talk about the right of social equality in all the fields that women unwrap: ‘Democracy in the country, in the house and in the bed’ becomes the slogan of the articulation of the movement of women in Chile and the entire Latin American.
After the rise of the dictatorship in 1973 Julieta played a fundamental role in the feminist resistance against the crimes and the oppression of the dictator Augusto Pinochet, she was one of the creator of women meeting places and fighting center for the resistance. This is how the Study Center of the women was born, between 1973 and 1983 this center worked through studies, workshops and conferences to mobilize chilean women, or like Julieta said: ‘aspired to be a center of production of the thought and feminist action´. As a politician, Julieta was socialist, so as a feminist her politics were based on the questioning to the traditional left that relegates the women to a second plane in the ordinals Marxist thesis. Julieta reinvigorated the importance of the labor of women in the politics.
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