The study investigated how the media framed the issues of women’s movements in Peru by analyzing Peruvian newspaper coverage of women’smovement and its struggles between 1987 and 1994. The news’ frame of three public issues related to reproductive self-determination–maternalmortality rate, decriminalization of abortion, and family planning, were carefully studied. The results indicated three cultural elements of the Peruvian news frames-the importance of the nation-state, the reproduction ofthe traditional women’s roles, and the absence of woman as subject. While the traditional woman’s images represented in the news’ frames remainedunchallenged, the increasing presence of the self-determination frame in thenewspapers brought new discursive opportunities for the women’s movement. The frame competition occurs in the form of disputes on the problem definition and cause-effect deduction under the same cultural basis. The article also discussed implications of Peruvian experiences for women’s movements in Taiwan.