Summary

 
This article studies the intersections between socialism and feminism in two poetic texts published in Chile in the early seventies: Jaula gruesa para el animal hembra (1972) by Alicia Galaz and Sabor a mí by Cecilia Vicuña. Both texts are analyzed from a sociocritic point of view, highlighting the correlations between the poetry of these authors with public discourses of the epoch around women’s liberation and patriarchy. Thus, it is proposed that both poets aim to endow the political project of the Popular Unity with a gender perspective, capable to think about women as political subjetcs, beyond their roles as housewives or labor workers. Galaz discuss sexism within leftist militance and the invisibilization of women in the revolutionary imagination; while Vicuña develops a Freudo-Marxist activism through which she associates the utopia for a new society with the exercise of a polymorphic sexuality.