LASA2010 Congress taking place October 6-9 in Toronto, Canada: Miners’ wives, a women’s movement, and copper in Rancagua, Chile, 1973
I will be presenting…
My research focuses on a group of women framed as the Feminist Command of El Teniente, who took over a radio station a few months before the Chilean coup on September 11, 1973. They mobilized more than ten thousand people to protest against Allende’s administration in Santiago, Chile. This work provides deep insight though qualitative interviews with this group of women whom I met in Rancagua, Chile (2003-2007). These recollections of memories, newspapers reports, and interviews with the Feminist Command of El Teniente provides information and data on whether the survivors were participants of the coup or not and if they were apolitical or not. Throughout this work I offer some of the opinions and reports from the newspapers, economic and social acontecimientos about mining conducted in the city of Rancagua, Chile.
