Anti-colonial Feminist Ramblings About Everything and Anything

Olea, Raquel; Olga Grau y Francisca Pérez. El género en apuros. Discursos públicos: Cuarta Conferencia Mundial de la Mujer. Santiago: LOM Ediciones, 2000. Olea et al. examine the tensions in Chile when democratic government representatives were to attend the IV World Women Conference at Beijing in 1995, identifying the main actors that participated and the discourses circulated. The analysis of these public debates makes visible some of the cultural logics of the “transition”, and how these logics shape the dynamics between actors. The debates revolve around the Plan de Igualdad de Oportunidades para las Mujeres , the official document that stated the government's position towards women's and gender issues published in 1994. Many of the criticisms to this document had to do with the ambiguity of some terms it contained, such as “gender” and “different types of families”, which —it was argued— could potentially be used as disguises to undermine monogamy and heterosexuality. Acco