This study examines the role of Chilean women as emblematic figure in the construction of the identity discourse of the new political and cultural order that began with the coup d'état in 1973. Through a qualitative discourse analysis methodology (Angenot, 2012), from a corpus consisting of primary and secondary sources, the author attempts to identify the heuristic bases of the new discourse on women and to what extent this discourse evidences continuities and ruptures on how to understand the country and its identity about the idea of order. The construction of this female figure used conservative gender aspects that were related to the political context prior to de coup and resulting functional with the idea of order of de military Junta. It's a discursive and moralistic construction which appears naturalized in the political culture of Chile.
Keywords:
Political speech, national identity, Chilean military dictatorship, woman and politic, gender and politics
Isla, P. (2017). Military dictatorship and identity construction: The ’Chilean Women’ category. Journal Studies of Public Policy, 3(1), 171–185. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-6296.2017.46347
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