The Action of Chile’s Feminist Movement on Recognition and Redistribution of Care: from Estallido Social to the National Care Systematthe Constitutional Convention

Abstract

This article investigates the impact of the Chilean feminist movement on the recent process of social insurrection, from the Estallido Social, which began in October 2019, to the Chilean Constituent Convention, with regard to the recognition of care as a right and the implementation of care public policies, notably the National Care System. The exploratory research, developed through a bibliographic and documentary review, presents the main elements of the chilean situation in recent times; it identifies the central feminist agendas and their repertoires of action in order to understand the current state of recognition of care as a right and the implementation of the National Care System in the country. By investigating the process by which feminist demands for the redistribution and socialization of care entered the chilean institutional agenda through the actions of feminist movements, we question the apparent separation between social movements and political institutions.