"Enquanto eu não matasse todos eu não ia dar sossego" : as mulheres como operárias da violência no contexto da ditadura civil-militar brasileira (1964-1985)

Abstract

This paper has as its main focus to analyze the role of the female gender in the context of the Brazilian Civil-Military Dictatorship (1964-1985), and how women as workers of violence were seen and understood in the face of a patriarchal and dictatorial society, with an emphasis on the experience of lieutenant Neuza, military police who worked at the São Paulo DOI-CODI. Furthermore, it is understood that the necessary conditions for a woman worker of violence in the context of the Brazilian Civil-Military Dictatorship to fulfill her role as a public agent, since this role was essentially male, is found in her adherence to the Doctrine of Security National, and all the mechanisms of violence legitimized by this doctrine and by the repressive government of the time, based on the idea of annihilation of the “internal enemy”. The research sought to clarify the presence of the feminine gender in the Brazilian dictatorial conjuncture, mainly of the workers of the violence, be they perpetrators, facilitators and/or spectators of the violence. With regard to the methodology adopted, the hypothetical-deductive method was chosen as the method of approaching this dissertation. Furthermore, the research carried out is applied on an exploratory basis, using a bibliographic and documentary review, based on the Brazilian Civil-Military Dictatorship, on gender roles and women workers of violence who acted as public agents in the repressive context. The present work is linked to the Research Line on Violence, Crimes and Public Security of the Master in Criminal Sciences at the School of Law of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS.