Memória e arquivo: um estudo sobre a inserção da mulher na Polícia Militar de Alagoas

Abstract

This study reflects on the representativeness of the female gender in society and specifically in the military environment, while at the same time seeking to increase the visibility of this issue, permeated by the memory of the arrival of the first contingent of female soldiers in the ranks of the Alagoas Military Police. In the light of Information Science, the theoretical framework adopted was the contribution of authors such as Halbwachs (1925; 2006), Nora (1993) and Le Goff (2003). The theoretical framework included studies on the subject of women in the security forces developed by Brazilian scientists, such as Calazans (2003; 2004), Soares and Musumeci (2005), Mathias and Adão (2013). The research took as its corpus bulletins and functional records held by the archives of the Alagoas Military Police, as well as documents from the institution's Personnel and Social Protection Directorates, which gather data on the pioneer women of the Alagoas Military Police, among other secondary documentary sources, including individual interviews and focus groups. The work aims to understand what the documents and sources of information are and how they are organised to preserve the memory of the female figure in the Alagoas Military Police from the time the pioneers joined. In order to analyse this data, the research delimits a profile of the members of the first class of soldiers made up exclusively of women in the institution, recovers aspects of this memory and analyses how the admission of women and the break with male exclusivity in the corps came about until we reach the current panorama.