Law and art in the female resistance to patriarcal authoritarianism during the brazilian civil military dictatorship

Abstract

The relationship between law and art – apparently subtle – is intense. Law is a cultural product resulting from human conventions, while art, in its progressive bias, is a cultural product that questions these conventions to deliver life from the prisons that human beings create. The avant-garde artistic field contributes to breaking paradigms, as well as the female gender, which is constantly emancipated to deconstruct paradigmatic meanings. The woman increasingly comes out of silence and reports her experiences. From the perspective of law, there are very important historical events that can become institutionalized. The alteration of constitutional norms, depending on the context, can represent the gateway to authoritarian models filled with arbitrariness, such as, for example, the civil military dictatorship of 64 and, in particular, the AI-5, in Brazil. In the arrangement between law, art and gender issues, a powerful context for reflection appears. The hypothesis presented is that art is capable of converting tragedies into powers and, exposing the experience suffered by women during the Brazilian military regime in literature and cinema, it acts on the possibility of society overcoming traumatic experiences, while mobilizing the right to adapt to new models of human interaction, enabling – or at least not hindering – the nascent positions of female subjects in the social field. The research starts from primary and secondary legal sources, such as the analysis of historical documents, news published by the major newspapers of the time, examination of normative texts and reading of classic works.