Moral, representation and "Mapuche feminism": elements to formulate a question

Abstract

This work wonders about the possible difficulties for the emergence of an organized "Mapuche feminism" in Chile. To do this, some affinities between the public statements of some contemporary Mapuche women and the paradoxes that Afro-American, Chicanas and Muslim feminists have faced in different contexts of domination are suggested. The hypothesis of the text is that the representation of "separatist" feminism, the blaming when denouncing violence experienced within their communities, the anxiety of devirilized nationalisms, the invisibilization on the part of "white" feminisms and the call to represent the dignity of a people, are some of the contradictions that these women share in the process of building a feminist political subjectivity.