The Chilean Ladies League (; 1912 – ) was a Chilean upper–class women's organization linked to the Catholic Church, which prompted trades for women and women's unions. Initially founded as the Chilean Ladies League Against Theatrical Licensing (), the league first functioned to censor plays, literature and later films which were deemed immoral.
History On 20 April 1912, Adela Edwards Salas published an article in the in which she emphasised the supposed relationship between the theater and national moral decline. Edward's posited that the deterioration of morals she saw being presented in contemporary Chilean theater was a reflect of a larger social shift. In order to prevent the performances of immoral plays, the article purposed the founding of a ladies' association modelled after the League of Catholic Ladies of Uruguay ().
The first meeting to establish the league was held in Santiago on 12 July 1912. 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, , Antonio Huneeus and .
The first General assembly of the league was held on 25 July 1912, and was attended by 450 women. The league was later disbanded around 1931.
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