“La Libertad tiene nombre de mujer”. Redes internacionales de solidaridad femenina tras el golpe chileno, 1973-1983

Abstract

Historiography has extensively examined how the 1973 Chilean coup had a strong emotional impact abroad and how several solidarity activities were set up to garner support for the victims of political repression. In spite of this, less specific attention has been dedicated to the international echo produced by very active social subjects during the dictatorship: women’s associations. During the seventies, across the entire region, women engaged in the struggle for human rights overlap in the public sphere with second-wave feminism. These two aspects of women’s visibility and agency sometimes yielded cooperations, and other times produced tensions and distances. This article, taking a gendered look at solidarity networks, is a first approach to the intertwined dimensions of exile, political activism, and international solidarity and their related bibliography.