Las mujeres de los Partidos Comunistas de Argentina y Chile entre los '30 y '60

Abstract

In this paper, I propose to establish a series of considerations about how the Communist Party structured the women’s organization in Argentina between the 30s and 60s, pointing out to international and vernacular questions. Punctually, I am interested in analyzing the state of research in Argentina on this topic and, then, establishing links with other national cases that contribute to the mapping out the experience of communism and women. As a counterpoint, I will take a case which is singular both in Latin American history, as well as in communism’s history in general, since this case shows that the processes under study were not linear: the well-studied case of communism in Chile.It has a socio-political interest because propose to understand the political mobilization of women as relevant subjects. If the study of politics has traditionally had myopia of gender, we can not affirm that academic research on the left (or from the left) has managed to evade the exclusionary sexism. Indeed, it took as general history of communist party the one that concern exclusively of the disputes of male intellectuals and organic leaders.