Analysis of gendered citizenship in Chile from the 1930s to the present. The author employs concepts and theories drawn from literature on social movements and women and the state. She addresses four main areas of debate: the employment of a 'politics of difference' as a movement frame, the tensions between 'autonomous' or 'double militant' activist positions, the factors that impede or facilitate women's access to electoral politics, and relations between women and women's state machineries.