"Act without forgiveness": Transitional justice, memory and repair policies for women victims of gender violence during Brazilian military dictatorship

Abstract

The following text presents a reflection on the need to incorporate a gender perspective into researches devoted to understanding processes of massive human rights violations, as well as reflections about state violence during the military dictatorship in Brazil, based on the analysis of two emblematic cases of women presented by the Final Report of the National Truth Commission: Zuzu Angel and Ana Kucinski. The objective is to make visible the different impact of state violence on women and men, as well as the silencing of the gender dimension of violence they have suffered within the transitional justice processes.