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TL;DR: The paper explores the impact of transnational networks and the struggles against free trade, gendered practices and political repression in different contexts. It also examines the development of gender consciousness among the Zapatista women and the challenges faced in achieving equality and improving the condition of women.

Abstract: of in the of the and labour demands and experience an expression of resistance to both transnational capital and to an authoritarian, patriarchal and paternalist culture present at all levels in The organizations we present belong to different national and transnational networks active in cross-border solidarity. These networks can be considered an indirect consequence of the industrial restructuring orientated towards an export though different free trade agreements. Our study cases are a clear example of the possibilities and even empowerment created by such a transnational support but also of the limits and risks of such a support in conditions where local and regional contexts and variables are essential for the outcomes of the struggles carried out by these organizations. movement, which has sought to challenge free trade as a developmentalist model for Latin America and the Caribbean. In particular, I critically observe the point of contact that Evangelina’s intervention, representing environmental concerns, created between the participants of the 4th EU-Latin America/Caribbean Summit and the parallel Social Forum “Enlazando Alternativas”. I conduct my analysis from a gender perspective taking into account that these sorts of interventions operate in a concrete historical context. The overall conclusion is that despite the symbolic potential of Evangelina’s protest to challenge established power structures, interventions like this one can also contribute to reproduce old and new social hierarchies, in this specific case, related to gender relations. love of her life, Romelio Ureta killed himself in 1909. This left a profound impact upon her life. Her adoptive son commits suicide at the age of 17. However despite personal setbacks Gabriela was able to pursue a very successful career in writing, education and politics. Her poems deal with themes from childhood and motherly love and are influenced by her Christian faith. These signs in his literary universe articulate Gabriela Mistral to traditional women’s images and female models of her epoch, meanwhile her literary discourse include others signs which are refuted and silenced. The discourse of historical truth creating patriotic emblems is placed under serious question by my article. Obviously, the implicit liaisons between private and publics histories in a Mistral’s life are central in this approach. This paper analyses the specific repression against political prisoner women in form of sexual torture and others that reproduced the patriarchal system during the Augusto Pinochet Ugarte Dictatorship (1973-1990). The article includes different women’s testimonies, basically, from the left wing parties (The Communist Party, The Socialist Party and The Revolutionary Left Movement) that reflect the torture experience from a gender perspective in the main concentration camps. Finally, the investigation adds the revision of The Valech Inform (November, 2004) as the first official recognition of Sexual Torture in Chile. This article presents the theoretical frames of an ongoing research project and focus on the discussion of the applicability of some conceptual tools for the study of the emergence and formation of transnational gender identities (i.e. transnational masculinities) and the configuration of gendered practices, such as homociability, in a particulat historical situation: the Swedish ambitions on the Rio de la Plata region during the Independence processes at the first decades of the 19 th Century. on the development of gender consciousness among the Zapatista women, the differences on the concept of equality and improvement of the condition of the woman in the Zapatista movement and the feminist paradigm, the change of the Zapatista discourse during the years of struggle and the possibility to find a shared space between these three groups. The theoretical framework is Critical Discourse Analysis, the context being the restructuring of the Mexican economy. Within this theoretical framework, I also present some observations of the concept of power and the use of Internet in the diffusion of the message of the Zapatistas.