This article aims to analyze the socio-cultural impacts arising from the formation of the reservoir with the construction of the Plant Luis Eduardo Magalhães and revisit some developmentalist discourses constructed by the local press during the construction of the plant. It also aims to highlight the memories of the women who were resettled emphasizing the feeling of them against the loss of a space that no longer exists and the strengthening of gender relations through discourses that relate to places and times that customarily are defined, themselves as women. The research focused oral history, since, in addition to expressing the historicity of personal experience and the individual's role in social history, oral history allows to extend the knowledge and information about the recent past through the release of people who lived.
gender; socio-cultural impacts; resettlement