Abstract

During the dictatorship many popular feminist projects were established, including the Yela group in Talca in 1986, composed of pobladora women and two Maryknoll Sisters. Of particular interest to this paper is the manner in which the Yela group’s popular feminism during the 1980s was shaped by the Women-Church movement and feminist theology related to patriarchy and violence. The possibilities and limitations of this will be discussed, as well as how, over the long-term, religious elements were gradually excluded from Casa Yela’s anti-violence work, in favor of more secular feminist interpretations.