The social discourses of Gabriela Mistral and the urgency for the visibilization of female voices

Abstract

The existence of a multiplicity of social discourses has great relevance in people's lives, so they allow us to reflect on daily practices, on the common places from which the subjects think of themselves and others, and the recurring themes that run through them at a given time. From this, two social discourses of the Chilean author, Gabriela Mistral, were analyzed: on the one hand The instruction of women [1906] and, on the other Organization of women [1925]. To carry out this work, some concepts worked by Marc Angenot in relation to social discourses were taken, such as hegemony and counter-hegemony and Elsa Drucaroff, gender order and class order. In this sense, it was observed in these speeches echoes of women's voices silenced in the word and that, based on the author's world views and assessments, the word of others transcends in her own voice, operating as an instrument to make visible those extirpated. by the history. The importance of these Mistral speeches lies in the fact that his voice represents all times and can be analyzed from contemporary social constructs.