Resumen: This article is aimed to identify the influences and life experiences that led to the development of a critical feminist consciousness in some left-wing militant women between the 1960s and 1980s in Santiago and Concepción in Chile and/or in exile. From the methodological point of view, it meant positioning ourselves qualitatively, using the so-called oral history, complemented with material from private and public archives. Both the processes of primary family socialization, political socialization linked to both secondary and university studies, as well as access to feminist support networks during exile and the context of the struggle against the dictatorship, influenced her feminist awareness and activism in feminist movements.