Abstract:
The article discusses the narratives produced by the national ex-president of the Movimento Feminino pela Anistia (MFPA), Therezinha Zerbini, seeking to understand their struggle for protagonism and expressions of disputes and resentment in their versions on resistance to the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship. Her memories are analyzed in contrast to other memorialistic, journalistic and academic narratives constructed until recently by different agents. The movement created and led by Zerbini, who died in 2015, was one of the first to become institutionalized in the struggle against dictatorship, but it does not have a privileged place in the hegemonic memories built on the process of redemocratization in Brazil, in view of the controversial views of Therezinha on the senses that the amnesty should have.
Keywords:
Civil-Military Dictatorship; Amnesty; Memory; Protagonism; Women