A beleza vai à guerra: imersão nas memórias das mulheres da primeira turma das policiais militares femininas do décimo batalhão de Montes Claros/MG

Abstract

The return to democracy in Brazil was marked by changes in the perspectives of government institutions. In the meantime, military institutions would have repercussions for these social changes and would be in line with the country's new momentum and, consequently, the expansion of rights and their prerogatives. Putting women in the ranks of military institutions was in keeping with the time and events outside the barracks, in line with the yearnings of Brazilian society in the 1980s, as well as helping to build a humanitarian self-image in the dictatorial context. Women's participation in police institutions has always provoked convenient and important discussions, although historiography has an unimpressive number of papers on these women. Fifty-five female soldiers in Montes Claros / MG, more precisely in the Tenth Battalion of the Military Police, began on December 1 of that year the training course of the First Class of female military police officers (PFEM) in the North of Minas Gerais. The group that completed, in 2016, thirty years, had its last remaining until the year 2015, when some chose to retire with all the advantages of reaching the full cycle of effective service. Through the oral history methodology, the research project was submitted and approved by the Ethics and Research Committee of the State University of Montes Claros-MG, on 06/28/2017, we sought to interview fifteen women and three men, three of them did not retire / retire at the institution. Thus, for this research, it was necessary to address in this area a question that deeply permeates the history of female labor: the occupation of public spaces between men and women. How and what defined how each of the sexes occupy and excel in this or that space? How to explain an explanatory dimension to the understanding of this reality? We sought to understand the facts and how each reacted to these, having them contact with militarism in the family or entered that universe without really knowing what it would be like to belong to an institution with regulation of the armed forces and that has in its pillars hierarchy and discipline. After the repercussion of the research, the Legislative Assembly of Minas Gerais proposed a Vote of Congratulations and the City Council of Montes Claros a meeting to pay homage to the First Class of Female Police officers in the Tenth Battalion.