Guinean Women in the Armed Fight for Freedom: Trajectories and Organized Movements
Guinea-Bissau, Liberation Fight, women, trajectories, gender relations
This work, entitled Guinean Women in the Armed Fight for Freedom: Trajectories and Organized Movements, aims to trace and analyze the life trajectories of some Guinean women who participated in the National Fight for Freedom, as well as the formats and definition of political participation established by these women, gender relations in the fighting process, and the founding of the Democratic Union of Women of Guinea and Cape Verde (UDEMU) being the first female organization in the country. It also intends to inquire the reverberation that this feminine presence had for the contemporary generations of women who are part of this same organization. Only a portion of these women are still alive and most of them live in Bissau, considering the advanced age of the women’s generation who participated in the fight and the scarce anthropological production on the subject, the research sought to produce a dissertation that illuminates the participation of the Women in the Fight for Freedom, usually narrated in masculine, and that allows us to understand the complexities of the processes that involves a discourse about the nation, with a gender perspective, which also allows us to better understand the context of participation at that time and its maintenance over time.