Corporación de Desarrollo de la Mujer La Morada

The corporation was founded by Julieta Kirkwood and Margarita Pisano in 1983 in the context of the feminist and women's movement during Chile's military dictatorship (1973-1990), when the Círculo de Estudios de la Mujer split into two projects: the research-oriented Centro de Estudios de la Mujer (CEM) and the Casa de la Mujer La Morada, which focused on the political activism of the women's movement.

The first meeting was held outside the Chilean National Library.

There, several workshops, lectures, debates and meetings were held, attended mainly by middle-class professional women, including Julieta Kirkwood, Margarita Pisano, Eliana Largo, María Antonieta Saa, Raquel Olea, Vicky Quevedo, Verónica Matus.

[1][2] The Boletín La Morada, a free newsletter, was published for about two years (1986-1987) by the corporation, mainly conceived as a vehicle to publicize the events taking place at the Casa and to provide information on the workshops, book launches, seminars and exhibitions.

[3] In 1991, La Morada founded an emblematic communication project with Radio Tierra, the first feminist radio station in Chile, managed and operated solely by women.