The book “Exílios no Feminino – seven paths of struggle and hope” is presented this Friday, April 21, at 18 pm, at the Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen Municipal Library, in Loulé.
The initiative is part of the programs for the 49th anniversary of the 25th of April.
This work is a co-edition between AEP61-74 – Association of Portuguese Political Exiles in the period of the dictatorship and the colonial war (1961-1974) and Edições Afrontamento and has seven co-authors who are, at the same time, women of the resistance to the dictatorship of Estado Novo: Amélia Resende, Beatriz Nunes, Fernanda Marques, Helena Cabeçadas, Helena Rato, Irene Pimentel and Maria Emília Brederode dos Santos.
«We started our journey shortly before confinement. Our first meeting was in person, on a pleasant terrace in Campo Grande. Many of us did not yet know each other personally and it was fun to exchange our first impressions about the project that brought us together: to write a book about our journeys in exile», say the authors.
«The idea seemed interesting to us because, if the theme of exile has been so little discussed in the history of resistance to fascism in the Estado Novo, the role of women, and so many were, often as companions of political refugees, deserters and refractory, has been completely ignored. Make them come out of silence, why not?», they add.
The presentation of the work is in charge of Priscila Soares. Admission is free.
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