Abstract

This article provides a proposal for analyzing the interaction between feminisms, both institutional and autonomous, and the law in Chile, highlighting how these feminist movements have influenced legal institutions and have been promoters of the integration of a gender perspective or gender mainstreaming in judicial practice. In this way, in a first stage, the paper describes how the feminist critical theory of law has promoted, from key authors of our continent, the importance of incorporating the gender approach in legal practices. Furthermore, the international space is recognized as a scenario that has allowed the hybridization between feminisms and acknowledging the existence of multi situated feminists, who play an important role in the promotion of gender interests in institutional spaces. In line with the latter, the study aims to show who mobilizes gender interests in the Chilean Judiciary and how the “feminist cause space” is composed in these institutions, considering the diversity of actors involved, from judges to activists and academics. Finally, from a methodological point of view, this paper presents proposals to grasp how the different feminisms, mainly institutional and autonomous, get shape, form and substance as a way to understand in a more exhaustive manner the reception of feminist ideas in this space.