Julieta Kirkwood
{{short description|Chilean sociologist, political scientist, university professor and feminist activist}}
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María Julieta Kirkwood Bañados (5 April 1936 – 8 April 1985) was a Chilean sociologist, political scientist, university professor and feminist activist. She is considered one of the founders and impellers of the Chilean feminist movement in the 1980s.{{Cite book|title = Julieta Kirkwood: teórica y activista del feminismo Chileno|publisher = Editorial USACH|date = 2009|location = Santiago de Chile|isbn = 9789563030877|language = Spanish|first = Raquel|last = Olea |author-link=Raquel Olea|oclc = 664572864}} She is considered the forerunner of Gender studies in Chile.
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 Her work constitute theoretical and historical reference works in the field of the study of the feminist movement in Chile and in Latin America: Ser política en Chile: las feministas y los partidos,{{Cite book|title = Ser política en Chile: las feministas y los partidos|publisher = Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales|date = 1986|location = Santiago, Chile|isbn = 8489330077|language = Spanish|first = Julieta|last = Kirkwood|oclc = 14054327}} Tejiendo rebeldías{{Cite book|title = Tejiendo rebeldías: escritos feministas|publisher = Centro de Estudios de la Mujer : Casa de la Mujer, La Morada|date = 1987|location = Santiago, Chile|language = Spanish|first1 = Julieta|last1 = Kirkwood|first2 = Patricia|last2 = Crispi|oclc = 22324482}} and Feminarios.{{Cite book|title = Feminarios|publisher = Ediciones Documentas|date = 1987|location = Santiago, Chile|language = Spanish|first1 = Julieta|last1 = Kirkwood|first2 = Sonia|last2 = Montecino Aguirre|oclc = 18302705}} She collaborated to the magazine Furia and to the Boletín del Círculo de Estudios de la Mujer.
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.
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, which motto she help promoting with Margarita Pisano was "Democracy in the country, in the house and in the bed".
Publications
- Chile: la mujer en la formulación política (Santiago: FLACSO, 1981).
- Feminarios (Santiago: Documentas, 1987).
- El feminismo como negación del autoritarismo (Santiago: FLACSO, 1983).
- Feminismo y participación política en Chile (Santiago: FLACSO, 1982).
- Feministas y políticas (Santiago: FLACSO, 1984).
- Los nudos de la sabiduría feminista (Santiago: FLACSO, 1984).
- La política del feminismo en Chile (Santiago: FLACSO, 1983).
- Ser política en Chile : las feministas y los partidos (Santiago: LOM Ediciones, 1982, 1986 y 2010).
- Ser política en Chile : los nudos de la sabiduría feminista (Santiago: Cuarto Propio, 1990).
- Tejiendo rebeldías : escritos feministas de Julieta Kirkwood (Santiago: CEM, 1987).
References
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{{cite web|title= Julieta Kirkwood y los saberes feministas (1937–1985)|url=http://www.memoriachilena.cl/temas/index.asp?id_ut=julietakirkwood(1937–1985)|access-date=19 July 2013|publisher=Memoria Chilena}}
{{cite book|last=Munnich|first=Susana|title=Gabriela Mistral: Soberbiamente Transgresora|year=2005|publisher=LOM Ediciones|isbn=978-956-282-779-9|pages=309}}
{{cite book|last=Vitale|first=Luis|title=Los principales períodos de la historia de América Latina: contribución al debate del bicentenario|year=2009|publisher=LOM Ediciones |isbn=978-956-000-084-2|page=102}}
{{cite book|last1=Montecino Aguirre|first1=Sonia|title=Género y epistemología: mujeres y disciplinas|year=1999|publisher=LOM Ediciones|isbn=978-956-282-176-6|pages=206|last2=Obach|first2=Alexandra}}
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