“Corpos auxiliares”: mulheres nas elites das Forças Armadas brasileiras

Abstract

This reserarch consists of a study on women in the elites of the Brazilian Armed Forces, with regard to their careers and the militarized environment. Through interviews with some female officers of the three branches - Navy, Air Force and Army - as well as a field of research with interaction with military personnel of the same in typically military situations, it was analyzed how female military personnel are seen within Brazilian Military Organizations. The military women have proven to be able to perform the expected military service, within the required rules and regulations, showing that women, since the most remote times, can work anywhere within an Armed Force, with the proper training. Despite this, categorizations and concepts such as honor, discipline and hierarchy are used in order to disqualify the professional work of Brazilian military women, making them work from less prestigious positions within each Force. The word "respect" comes to have a different understanding within the military world, different from that expected by professionals, causing adversity to occur from the beginning of their careers to the present day. In order to support this study, the use of academic texts, as well as exemplary literature, focused on the figure of women in military environments helped to carry out sociological analyses. In addition, the use of secondary sources such as TV series, interviews in the mainstream media about the military and their trajectories within exclusively male places helped in the attempt to understand, in a scientific way, what is the view that is held of a military woman in Brazil.