DESARROLLISMO Y SALUD REPRODUCTIVA: LA INTERVENCIÓN DE LOS DISPOSITIVOS BIOMÉDICOS EN LOS CUERPOS FEMENINOS AYMARAS, EN EL NORTE DE CHILE*

Since the 1950s, we find ourselves facing a process of modernization of Latin American societies under the ideology of “development”; phenomenon that not only has an economic but also a socio-cultural scope. This process can be seen in the implementation of social and health policies in the 1960s, which especially target on women bodies and its reproductive capacity, since the “excess of children” was seen as an important cause of reproduction of the poverty, especially in rural and indigenous sectors. Documentary sources were reviewed, and ten in-depth interviews were conducted with local informants to understand bio-medical practices installed on women bodies under this prevailing logic, whose purpose was to hegemonize, regulate and control the whole life (productive and reproductive) of women, which we will analyze in Tarapaca Aymara spaces.