Chilean Ladies League

The Chilean Ladies League (Spanish: Liga de Damas Chilenas; 1912 – c. 1931) was a Chilean upper–class women's organization linked to the Catholic Church, which prompted trades for women and women's unions.[1] Initially founded as the Chilean Ladies League Against Theatrical Licensing (Spanish: Liga de Señoras Chilenas contra la Licencia Teatral), the league first functioned to censor plays, literature and later films which were deemed immoral.[1][2][3]

History

On 20 April 1912, Adela Edwards Salas published an article in the La Revista Católica in which she emphasised the supposed relationship between the theater and national moral decline.[2] Edward's posited that the deterioration of morals she saw being presented in contemporary Chilean theater was a reflect of a larger social shift.[2] In order to prevent the performances of immoral plays, the article purposed the founding[a] of a ladies' association modelled after the League of Catholic Ladies of Uruguay (Spanish: Liga de Damas Católicas de Uruguay).[2]

The first meeting to establish the league was held in Santiago on 12 July 1912.[2] Attended by 25 upper-class women, including the leagues co-founder and first director Amalia Errázuriz de Subercaseaux, the meeting was also attended by the politicians Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña, Ismael Valdés Vergara, Antonio Huneeus and Francisco Concha Castillo.[1][2][4][5]

The first General assembly of the league was held on 25 July 1912, and was attended by 450 women.[2] The league was later disbanded around 1931.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ Edwards' further states that the idea of establishing such league was not her own, but that of an unnamed friend.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Valeria Alejandra, Olivares-Olivares (2019). "En defensa de las trabajadoras. Católicas y obreras organizadas en Chile desde fines del siglo XIX hasta 1930". In Loyola Tapia, Manuel; Gálvez Comandini, Ana; Álvarez Vallejos, Rolando (eds.). Mujeres y Política en Chile (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Ariadna Ediciones. pp. 81–117. ISBN 979-10-365-6067-5. Retrieved 10 May 2026.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Robles Parada, Andrea Isolina (2013). LA LIGA DE DAMAS CHILENAS: De la cruzada moralizadora al sindicalismo femenino católico, 1912–1918 (PDF) (Thesis) (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: University of Chile. Retrieved 10 May 2026.
  3. ↑ Donoso, Eliana Jara; Villarroel, Mónica (2013). "Women in Chilean Silent Cinema". In Gaines, Jane; Vatsal, Radha; Dall'Asta, Monica (eds.). Women Film Pioneers Project. Translated by Palacios, José Miguel. New York, NY: Columbia University Libraries. Retrieved 11 May 2026.
  4. ↑ Valenzuela, J. Samuel; Valenzuela, Erika Maza (2000). "The Politics of Religion in a Catholic Country: Republican Democracy, Cristianismo Social and the Conservative Party in Chile, 1850–1925". In Ivereigh, Austen (ed.). The Politics of Religion in an Age of Revival: Studies in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America. London: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. pp. 188–223. ISBN 978-1-900039-32-1. Retrieved 10 May 2026.
  5. ↑ "The Catholic Woman's Home Page: A Distinguished Chilean Family". The Canadian Register. Quebec, Canada. 6 June 1912. p. 6. Retrieved 10 May 2026.
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