Mulheres na guerrilha: práticas e estratégias femininas na guerra dos cabanos Alagoas e Pernambuco (1832-1850)

Abstract

This study develops about a history seen from the bottom, the history of women who lived in the context of the War of Cabanos, and who participated in it. In the field of regional and national historiography, the War of Cabanos, or Cabanada, has been studied as an uprising that took place during the 19th century, between the years of 1832 and 1850, in the Provinces of Alagoas and Pernambuco. Although documentary sources that show traces of the presence of women in this armed conflict have already been visited by the historians who have written about this war, no record of historical research dealing specifically with the issue has been found, in both areas of national and regional history, and particularly in Alagoas. This investigation has based on handwritten sources and publications in 19th-century journals, searching and examining the explicit and implicit forms of women representations in that historical universe of the War of Cabanos (1834-1850). The narratives about these women are lacunar and residual, which led me to use the method of content analysis proposed by Laurence Bardin (2011) and the approach of microanalytical research by Carlo Ginzburg (2017). It was necessary to find affinities in both techniques to uncover the clues, the Freudian slips, what it's conveyed between lines, the silences, the contradictions in such documents. Based on the cultural-historical theory, I demonstrate how these women who lived deep in the woods, suffering the reprisals of the military incursions in those times of war, are protagonists in the battle.