El No Lugar de la militancia femenina en el Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria, MIR

Abstract

Abstract: In this article, we reflect from a feminist perspective on the division of the private and public spheres and the female captivities to analyze the difficulties of female political membership and the posibilities of being part of an armed political organization like the Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR) in Chile, based on the testimony of women of this organization and on their official party documentation. We propose that in the transition from the role of ‘madresposa’ (mother and wife) mandated by hegemonic femininity, to the guerrilla -historically male and masculinizing- these militants go through an illusion of equality as a result of an effort to show that they have enough, ending in a non-place, as the end of the journey is denied sex-generically, despite that they incur in transgressions unusual for this generation.