Body, resistance and gender: an analysis of the testimony of María Amélia de Almeida from the gender theory

Abstract

This article is part of a wider investigation whose objective is to interpret the testimonies of the Latin American political prison of women from a feminist theory to establish new parameters for an understanding and confi guration of women as active political and social subjects in history. In this case, I will analyze the testimony of Maria Amélia de Almeida from Brazil, understanding this text as a valid space of declaration of a to the limit-experience, originated from the exchange of subjective experiences that will reaffi rm this woman as a political subject placed in a context of a prison, violence and transgression. Thus, this survivor will expose how gender, being a social structure, builds unequal relationships and legitimizes diff erences, not only in the political participation of the party itself, but also –and above all– in the repression suff ered, where we will be focusing on how the psychological dimension of sexual tortures also acquire a particular gender character.