Papel das mulheres na ação integralista (1932 – 1937)

Abstract

In 1932 the Integralist movement appeared in Brazil, led by Plínio Salgado, which was based on three concepts: "God, Fatherland and Family". The proposal of the movement consisted of a society based on the integral State. The group had as its goal the conception that the State should not be only the Government, the Administration of a country, but, above all, a people united by the language and religion, so the nation and the State must integrate for the same intent, characterizing a nationalist movement, typical of the first half of the twentieth century. This paper aims to highlight the role of women in the movement, in the State of Pernambuco, between the years 1932 to 1937, and their assistentialists actions and on the education at Pernambuco. In our perspective, we pursed to show that integralist women had a kind of political and social action, within the objectives of the family and traditional movement. As a conservative and traditional movement, we understand that Integralism opened some space for women to act in the political life of the country, considering that in the 1930s women were still struggling for political participation. Thus, we can say that Plínio Salgado was ahead of its time, though these women went to the political life to defend the conservative ideals of their time. The Integralism enabled women to educate for political participation, when they acted in literacy for the people, obviously in defense of Plinio Salgado. Here we are not questioning their ideologies, but the space that the AIB opened for women in the political life of the 1930s, when they still could not vote.