WOMEN OF UDEMU AND THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE ARMED FIGHT FOR LIBERATION: TRAJECTORIES AND ORGANIZED MOVEMENTS.
Guinea-Bissau, Liberation Fight, women, trajectories, gender relations
This work, entitled Women of UDEMU and their participation in the Armed Struggle for Liberation: Trajectories and Organized Movements, aims to trace and analyze the life trajectories of some Guinean women who participated in the Armed Struggle for National Liberation. Based on the dialogue and some biographical aspects of women from the Democratic Union of Women of Guinea and Cape Verde (UDEMU), the first female organization in the country, it inquires through the formats of political participation of women in Guinea Bissau and reflects on their relationship with the liberation struggle. The work also sought to understand the reverberation that this feminine presence had for contemporary generations of women who are part of that same organization, in emancipatory and organizational terms. Only a portion of these women is still alive and most of them live in Bissau, the capital of the country and taking into account the advanced age of women of the generation who participated in the struggle and the very little anthropological production on the subject, this research sought to produce a dissertation that enlighten the participation of women in the Armed Struggle for Liberation, usually narrated in the masculine and that would allow, in a gender perspective, to understand the complexities of the processes involving a discourse on the nation, to better comprise the context and formats of political participation at that epoch and its maintenance or transformation over time.