Alicia Luongo Gilda Salomone and
Revista Signos
Kirkwood time, the eighties in Chile, led to growing of feminist rebellion. As never felt the "patriarch ridiculous" so close, so absurd in its authoritarianism and its arbitrariness friend's death. In that mined land was a need to ask how we got to be there that way in the midst of oppression. And in the tentative answers from women, appears clearly that I was asleep. In the political attempt to resist, to transform this society made prosthesis, stratified into classes, erected from a democracy so fragile, unable to sustain a transformative project, something begins to unravel as foreign as another ringing tone. Uncomfortable, women start to wonder, again after a long silence, call Kirkwood also stage the global release , by becoming the subject of politics (Kirkwood, 1987: 179-188).
Revista Signos
Kirkwood time, the eighties in Chile, led to growing of feminist rebellion. As never felt the "patriarch ridiculous" so close, so absurd in its authoritarianism and its arbitrariness friend's death. In that mined land was a need to ask how we got to be there that way in the midst of oppression. And in the tentative answers from women, appears clearly that I was asleep. In the political attempt to resist, to transform this society made prosthesis, stratified into classes, erected from a democracy so fragile, unable to sustain a transformative project, something begins to unravel as foreign as another ringing tone. Uncomfortable, women start to wonder, again after a long silence, call Kirkwood also stage the global release , by becoming the subject of politics (Kirkwood, 1987: 179-188).
Where women wanted to be left during the dictatorship?, Where we were before? Kirkwood along with other women rediscutirán the contents of the draft global release, and express the specificity of the oppression of this group, challenge the common positions in politics.
The approach "no democracy without feminism" require rethinking democracy, this concept and will be placed facing the political spectrum not previously considered: future of subjectivity, emotional and sexual production, the daily life of domesticity in violence and submission, as well as dare to apply the oblique concepts such as freedom, equality, solidarity.
claim to be subject to be decided, be heard as such: women of speech, with rights and desires, full-length portraits. The generic-specific sexual Attempts will be around and new quests. The relentless feminist-ra is located in the language difference and try to say it, tireless inquire how this difference stresses the most comprehensive anti-dictatorship political project. But always convincing, so it is vital that this singularity, this resonance feminist and even hard to call it this way and mouth full at the beginning, your pronunciation will be inevitable. Kirkwood with the feminist group opens up and grows in the years covered by the fears. This intellectual and political woman comes seduced by the resilient force deployed in women, the power for action, to reflection possible, sensible and intelligent and with those different body colors and intense. The bodies of women, silenced in the early Latin American feminism beginning of the century, now explodes uncensored and is part of the range of sensual and sensory registers of knowledge cultivated by a variety of women. Says "And I knew the huge, unfinished virtuality of affection, enjoyment and pleasure and claimed multiplied: the playful vitality and irreversible [...]" (Kirkwood, 1987: 236).
think, influenced by Italian feminists of difference, that this intellectual body leads to wild, as named Muraro (1995), which allows decibilidad that violates the mandate restraint of speech because it is connected with (in) a place in the maternal experience (Muraro, 1995: 185 - 202). Julieta Kirkwood channeling the momentum of women's writing. Two texts in which it participates as a manager with other women, circulating in this context watched and punished the early eighties. We get up in magazine format and other formats Bulletin. Moving to open spaces for reading, expression of women's groups, conspiracy and resistance.
The Journal Fury Kirkwood writes most of his editorials as well as articles collaboration that will work as a provocation and encouragement for the continuation of women's movement.
The second text that emerges from this adventure is the Bulletin Circle Women's Studies . This is a publication that arises from the organization that bears the same name. And early twentieth century feminist Labarca had organized the Reading Circle, in the eighties replicate the gesture by naming the place that favors the creation of collective spaces of knowledge and action as "Circle."
Circle In the eighties Kirkwood will make his contribution in designing and implementing a curriculum that sought to explore theories that provided a livelihood to the movement and that trained women for the continuity of feminist work. This educational aspect, the feminist seeks to innovate so interested in the theory and scientific approaches are open to accommodate those forms of knowledge that have been left out of the inquiry set up by the male intellectual world. We want to modify the authoritarian style of traditional education as well as interested in revealing the lack of neutrality in education and knowledge. On the other hand, claims that the experience of women and their ways of approaching this knowledge is legitimized. Interested by the same trace and build another story. Investigates the untold story and the faces told by men. Systematic, organized and periodization. Attempts to clarify and still investigating. Tackles the genealogical task. Found in pieces, fragments, appearances and disappearances evidence confirming the existence of the rebellion of women and their participation in the cultural world, but along with this puts questions to guide the work reflective of the time. In an attempt to ensure this work forward also wonders about the future. Repeatedly expressed his desire to know what will happen later with the movements, especially when times emergency has passed, when the dictatorship has fallen. In these investigations I read a stubborn uncertainty rather than certainty and firmness solid movement. Close and somehow inherited the imagery of the witches who were burned, some vision that aims to anticipate a possible decline. You suspect that women will return again to the parties.
Kirkwood
be surprised today by what has happened, for what we've become viscous during the transition back to democracy. Today I would like the vitality of Kirkwood passionate that investigated the theory to support feminism. His readings carry on intelligent approaches of authors, then a novel, and now found in abundance in most 'gender centers' installed in universities, were full of passion and commitment to building a feminist wisdom.
be surprised today by what has happened, for what we've become viscous during the transition back to democracy. Today I would like the vitality of Kirkwood passionate that investigated the theory to support feminism. His readings carry on intelligent approaches of authors, then a novel, and now found in abundance in most 'gender centers' installed in universities, were full of passion and commitment to building a feminist wisdom.
I read Simone de Beauvoir, Monique Wittig, Juliet Mitchell, Anne Oakley, Sheila Rowbotham, Albert Camus, Michel Foucault, Merlau Ponty, among others / as (Kirkwood, 1990). incorporated in feminist theoretical developments, for the first time in Chilean intellectual culture, the concept of gender and reflected hopeful about its potential for feminist work . Gender as a theoretical tool is fraught with political meanings. It can be a powerful theoretical weapon for change, for the unveiling of the springs eternally repeated as tics in our culture, yet it is also easier and more convenient to apply health and leave it installed in the neutrality that enables comfortable and progresistamente sell in the market for gain and arrangement of subjects rendered / as. On the contrary, the author takes the working of Foucault on power / knowledge and integrated as part of the feminist knots. When performing this operation reaffirms the conviction that intellectual and political theory can and must necessarily feed movement practices. These knots are a central in the thinking of Kirkwood and demonstrates his intellectual courage to deal with conflicts, traps and blind effort to work on them or from them in a different way than usual. So named this work: "or soft and harmonious development, but an interference envelope or a course-not call undue obstacle - forcing all to a new geometry, with an array of spins in a different direction, changeable, changeable, but fundamentally strong ... the knots are part of a living movement "(Kirkwood, 1987, 1990).
When he discovers the performance concepts and theoretical approaches are to feminism, is that this is his best contribution is the best contribution that can be done to make the political practice of feminism achieved if possible. knots of feminist wisdom allow the disclosure of the complexities, tensions and contradictions that cut across women's organizations that seek to enhance the future subject of a new way of culture and society (Crispi, 1987 , Malverde, 1994).
With Julieta Kirkwood today we can try to illuminate part of the desire to return to form from a feminist political movement.
Maybe this attempt will generously sustain the tools of analysis of practices and theories that reading provides. However, I think it is imperative to take a critical tone handful who appropriates to himself the wrath , because it writes, review papers, magazines manage, design courses, while inventing collective works constructed by any women increasingly subject desiring pleasure and knowledge.
That toast generously angry maybe life is the sip that women need this as well off today Chile in the approval and so fearful of more strident radicals.
