They Love Us So Much That They Kill Us
摘要
This chapter shows that Chilean women writers addressed all the core issues of the working-class press from within that same press. However, their locus of enunciation as women allowed them to re-write those same topics in a way that disrupts the patriarchal logic of the working-class press and expose its inner contradictions. The chapter addresses three main problems: (1) it analyzes how women resorted to working-class writing strategies to legitimize their texts according to the writing principles introduced in Chap. 2 ; (2) it contrasts their texts to the male-centered narratives about the origins of capitalism studied in Chap. 4 to expose the way in which the male workers’ historical narrative is structured upon the exclusion and commodification of women; and (3) it addresses the problem of the ‘commodification of women’s love’ as the main principle of the market economy as analyzed in Chaps. 4 and 5 by positing a feminist account of the way in which male workers were left alone because they turned love into murder, and not because women ‘betrayed’ them. These three issues tackle the main points on which the male working-class narrative is grounded upon and puts forward an alternative account of the effects of capitalist modernity on the working class as a whole.