" I'M NOT YOUR MOMMY" ABOUT THE CONSTRUCTION OF FEMININITY IN PUBLIC MONUMENTS

One of the ways to understand how we look and how we participate within the public space is through monuments. Their presence in the city embodies cultural, social, and even heritage complexities that contain more than meets the eye. This text elaborates a careful study on how the distribution of gender and ethnicity in the monuments of Santiago build a narrative of patriarchal and colonial models of femininity, and how certain interventions, such as that of the 8M of 2020, can be viewed as decolonizing and depatriarchalizing actions.