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Female body; Military Dictatorship; Subjectivity; Testimony; Torture.
This work aims to discuss the process of resistance by women during the MilitaryDictatorship and the main mechanisms used to repress female bodies, both politically andculturally, in the state of Pernambuco between the years 1968 and 1974. Thus, we considerthe body as a space where flesh, physicality, and the subjective, intangible aspects merge,resulting in human beings who are simultaneously mind and materiality. Within this space,power relations, gender, and language operate, and it is these relationships that we seek tostudy throughout the research. Through official documents, we focused on defining asample for the research and, based on it, conducting a prosopography, which is an overviewof the women who were targeted by repression and how the system endeavored to penalizethem. However, studying the documentation alone would not be sufficient to achieve ourobjectives in the research. This is because it is only through testimonies that we can analyzethe perspective of those on the other side of the document: the women. Therefore, weconducted interviews with some of the individuals who were arrested and persecuted duringthe period and accessed testimonies given to the National Truth Commission (CNV) andthe State Commission for Memory and Truth Dom Helder Câmara (CEMVDHC). OralHistory allows for a cross-referencing of official data documented by organizations andinstitutions with everything that was not written down; the feelings, violence, thoughts,sensations, and pain experienced by female bodies.