Abstract

SALGADO, Raquel Gonçalves; FERREIRA, Dantiely Martins  and  AMARO, Raquel Dias. Memories of Dissident Women in the Military Dictatorship as an Antidote to Crumbling Democracy. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2022, vol.22, n.spe, pp.1601-1621.  Epub May 27, 2024. ISSN 1808-4281.  https://doi.org/10.12957/epp.2022.71763.

This article focuses on the memories of dissident women in the military dictatorship and the importance of their social appearance as a resistance to the production of erasure. The dissidences, in addition to encompassing political militancy at the time, cover the experiences crossed by social markers of difference, such as gender, sexuality and race, which, in the military regime, were assumed as threats to the nation project. Memories of militant women, in testimonies that appear in the Report of the National Truth Commission, of lesbian women, in the ChanacomChana newsletters, and of peripheral, black and working women, in the newspaper Nós, Mulheres, are discussed from the following perspectives: violence practiced against these people for performing a subversive femininity that threatens gender norms as pillars that sustain the ideology of nation and family in force at the time; and the visibility of their resistance practices. We argue that the production of these memories occurs in the articulation of experiences and social positions that enunciate differences in the ways of living, thinking, feeling, narrating, and resisting. In this perspective, intersectionality is the contribution to the analysis of these women's memories.

Keywords : memories; women; military dictatorship; democracy..

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