Gender violence in Chile is a structural problem that the Feminist and Women's Movement has been actively discussing for decades and that is outlined in the context of the dictatorship. Then, with the return of neoliberal democracy, debates about participation became part of the Feminist Movement's agenda, given the creation of specialized state gender agencies. Therefore, the following essay seeks to review the theorizations and tensions of the broad feminist movement from a historical perspective in relation to institutionalization, academization, demobilization and the emergence of public policies against Gender Violence, accounting for three conclusions: i) the role of social movements and opportunities for collective action in tension with the State, ii) the institutionalization of the problem as an opportunity to respond to structural violence and iii) the discussion around the effective participation of the feminist movement and international policies.