Os movimentos sociais femininos no Norte de Minas no contexto da e pós Ditadura Militar

Abstract

From the 1960s onwards, Brazil would experience a period of political authoritarianism centered on the Military Dictatorship, marked by the violation of human rights and the absence of freedom of expression. Faced with the context of repression, social movements emerged in the country, especially the Women's Movement, which would be characterized as a consequence of actions to liberate women from gender oppression and patriarchal oppression, starting to question and, at the same time, destabilize order prevailing in society. Thus, this movement sought a network of protest and resistance, in the face of the events experienced in that period, such as deaths, impeachments, exiles, persecutions, among others. This dissertation aims to analyze the role of female social movements in the North Mineira region in the context of and after the Military Dictatorship, in order to identify how this role has changed. The methodology adopted in the dissertation was bibliographic research and semi-structured interviews with some women who experienced the period of the Military Dictatorship and others who were important social actors during the period of redemocratization in the country. The objective was to understand how the process of articulation, formation, resistance and consolidation of the Women's Movement took place from a period marked by the absence of rights. Although not conclusive, the present dissertation found that, unlike other regions of the country, the Norte Mineira region stood out for the struggles focused on labor issues, with the help of the Ecclesial Base Communities that had a crucial role in the process of awareness and emancipation in a period marked by the absence of freedoms in the most diverse spheres of social life.