Julieta Kirkwood
Born(1936-04-05)5 April 1936
Died8 April 1985(1985-04-08) (aged 49)
NationalityChilean
Occupationsociologist
Known forLatin American Social Sciences Institute
Notable workCírculo de Estudios de la Mujer,
MEMCh 83

María Julieta Kirkwood Bañados (5 April 1936 – 8 April 1985) was a Chilean sociologist, political scientist, university professor and feminist activist.[1] She is considered one of the founders and impellers of the Chilean feminist movement in the 1980s.[2] She is considered the forerunner of Gender studies in Chile.[3][4][5][6]

Life and work

Daughter of Johnny Kirkwood and Julieta Bañados, she was a professor and researcher at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO). Her work constitute theoretical and historical reference works in the field of the study of the feminist movement in Chile and in Latin America:[4][7][8][9] Ser política en Chile: las feministas y los partidos,[10] Tejiendo rebeldías[11] and Feminarios.[12] She collaborated to the magazine Furia and to the Boletín del Círculo de Estudios de la Mujer.[3]

Her theoretical work studied gender issues from a feminist point of view. She criticized the conservative feminist discourse while incorporating the Latin American culture from an interculturality perspective.[13][14]

As an activist, she participated in several organisations defending the Woman's rights, among which the Círculo de Estudios de la Mujer and the MEMCh 83. She was also one of the founders of the Feminist Movement opposing the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet,[3] which motto she help promoting with Margarita Pisano was "Democracy in the country, in the house and in the bed".[15][16]

Publications

References

  1. ^ Urbina, José Leandro (2011). Camilo Henríquez. El sueño ilustrado. Santiago de Chile: Editorial Universidad de Santiago de Chile. p. 70.
  2. ^ Olea, Raquel (2009). Julieta Kirkwood: teórica y activista del feminismo Chileno (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile: Editorial USACH. ISBN 9789563030877. OCLC 664572864.
  3. ^ a b c "Julieta Kirkwood y los saberes feministas (1937–1985)". Memoria Chilena. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
  4. ^ a b Tompkins, Cynthia Margarita; Foste, David William (2001). Notable Twentieth-Century Latin American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 324. ISBN 978-0-313-31112-3.
  5. ^ Vitale, Luis (2009). Los principales períodos de la historia de América Latina: contribución al debate del bicentenario. LOM Ediciones. p. 102. ISBN 978-956-000-084-2.
  6. ^ Munévar Munévar, Dora Inés (2011). Pensando los saberes de género. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. p. 310. ISBN 978-958-719-849-2.
  7. ^ Munnich, Susana (2005). Gabriela Mistral: Soberbiamente Transgresora. LOM Ediciones. p. 309. ISBN 978-956-282-779-9.
  8. ^ Agosín, Marjorie; Meyer, Doris (1995). "Julieta Kirkwood (1936–1985)". In Meyer, Doris (ed.). Rereading the Spanish American Essay: Translations of 19th and 20th Century Women's Essays. University of Texas Press. p. 324. ISBN 978-0-292-75182-8.
  9. ^ Montecino Aguirre, Sonia; Obach, Alexandra (1999). Género y epistemología: mujeres y disciplinas. LOM Ediciones. p. 206. ISBN 978-956-282-176-6.
  10. ^ Kirkwood, Julieta (1986). Ser política en Chile: las feministas y los partidos (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales. ISBN 8489330077. OCLC 14054327.
  11. ^ Kirkwood, Julieta; Crispi, Patricia (1987). Tejiendo rebeldías: escritos feministas (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Centro de Estudios de la Mujer : Casa de la Mujer, La Morada. OCLC 22324482.
  12. ^ Kirkwood, Julieta; Montecino Aguirre, Sonia (1987). Feminarios (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Ediciones Documentas. OCLC 18302705.
  13. ^ Gargallo, Francesca (2009). "El feminismo y su instrumentalización como fenómeno de mestizaje en nuestra América". Revista Venezolana de Estudios de la Mujer. 14 (33): 27–36. ISSN 1316-3701. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  14. ^ Luongo, Gilda (2005). "Contrapunto para cuatro voces: Emergencias privadas/urgencias públicas en la escritura de mujeres". Revista signos. 38 (57). Valparaíso. doi:10.4067/S0718-09342005000100009. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
  15. ^ Lamus Canavae, Doris (2009). "Localización geohistórica de los feminismos latinoamericanos". Polis. 8 (24). Santiago de Chile: 95–109. doi:10.4067/S0718-65682009000300006.
  16. ^ Carosio, Alba (2009). "El feminismo Latinoamericano y su proyecto ético-político en el siglo XXI". Revista Venezolana de Estudios de la Mujer. 14 (33). Caracas: 13–24. ISSN 1316-3701. Retrieved 20 July 2013.
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