Politicization, fight and resistance in Chile. An approximation to the case of women in the Lautaro Youth Movement (1983-1993)

Abstract

The MAPU-Lautaro put on the table several issues before the dictatorship and the renewed left; one of the highlights was the role that women assumed in the lautarine ranks, being a criminalized role by the press and public opinion with everything that meant be a woman in dictatorship and in the coming democracy. We deepened the role of women in the Lautaro, with all the peculiarities that this entailed per se and highlighted some characteristics of female militancy, from the processes of politicization, going through political-military development, to the actions of fight and resistance of women in the persecution, imprisonment and disarticulation of the Lautaro. We also observe the look of feminine militancy of one of the organizations that seems to be the most suitable for the political consideration of women, outside the governmental institutions.