Women as victims, public foetuses, isolated uterus: gender technologies, tensions and displacements in the visual representations of abortion in Chile

Abstract

Considering images as gender technologies, this article aims to explore the campaigns and visual representation of feminist activism in the current dispute for abortion in Chile. We analyse visual initiatives and performances of the feminist, lesbian-feminist and sexual dissidence activism that show a displacement and problematisation in respect to certain visual and representational politics that we consider ‘humanitarian’ and victimizer - from those against abortion and hegemonic feminisms.  In particular, we focus on the construction of three political signs: women as victims, isolated uterus and public foetuses.