A militância pelo afeto: táticas femininas para enganar perpetradores durante a ditadura civil-militar brasileira (1964-1984)

Abstract

The article deals with the militancy of women, in the city of Osasco, during the civil-military dictatorship. Between 2009 and 2012, women were interviewed, who worked between the guerrilla and the domestic space. Without political involvement in student or union movement and without militancy in the guerrilla, told how the prisons of their loved ones affected their lives and domestic space. Moved by affection, by the will to defend the lives of friends and family, prisoners and tortured, they have developed innovative forms to achieve their goals, from defending their homes, hiding guerrilla material and evidence, visiting prisoners and ensuring communication between them and their families. They acted in the fight for the amnesty, too. Moved by passion, the interviewees demonstrated that militancy can be subversive in many ways, including using moral stigmas around women’s representations to create practices of resistance.

Keywords

• resistance
• women
• militancy
• Osasco
• affection