Chilean female university students: Discourses and practices against sexist violence

Abstract

The work gives an account of the itinerary that female university students followed during the mobilizations for a non-sexist education in Chile in 2018. They were aiming at raising awareness and counteracting sexual harassment within the educational institution. Feminism and collective action make up the theoretical corpus for the analysis, giving emphasis to the situated perspective of dialogic ethnography and the analysis of records and press. It shows displacements in power relations within practices and discourses that question the gender device and the traditional forms of representative democratic participation.