The emergence of the feminist movement in the Chilean social explosion

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Abstract

Some of the ways in which the feminist movement emerged in the social outbreak in Chile are analyzed, focusing on the non-institutional politicization of the movement and the use of the body and emotions to perform the protest; aspects present in a recent genealogy of feminism, considering two milestones: the feminist university shots of 2018 and the March 8, 2019 manifestation. A documentary analysis of a corpus of press releases on the three events and requests for the shots was made. We propose that feminism can be understood as a thread of continuity that makes intelligible this series of processes that, otherwise, could not be interpreted: new political formations and subjectivities that emerge from the overflow of institutionalism.

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feminism, politics,, performance, body