01-01-2011
23-04-2013
The Comissões Unitárias de Mulheres do Porto (Unitary Commissions of Women from Porto) were a movement of social struggle that has emerged and intervened in Porto between 1976 and 1990 which was mobilized in the strive for better living conditions and against governmental policies felt as harmful to the population. The memory of this movement is scarce and its historical accounts are too few and scattered. Starting from a set of public documents about this movement which were donated to one of the researchers, we tried to recreate the memory of this social movement, integrating it in a line of oral and social
history research on the twentieth century’s Porto. In this article we will be focusing on the theoretical and methodological foundations of this research project. The methodological path chosen for this project is based on documental analysis and oral history, seeking to revive the individual and collective memories of these protagonists, not only recreating the memory of this social movement but also to acknowledge the importance of the participation in these social struggles for these women
members of the project:
FBAUP Cátia Susana Mendanha Lopes
FPCEUP Ana Sofia Peres Filipe de Araújo
FPCEUP Anabela Moreira da Silva Conde
FPCEUP Gisela Myre e Santos Mota
FPCEUP Inês de Carvalho Fernandes Martins da Silva
FPCEUP Inês Rodrigues de Vasconcelos Teixeira Miguel
FPCEUP Joana da Conceição Vaz Rainha Mateus
FPCEUP Joana Sarmento Pinto Correia
FPCEUP João Carlos Pereira Caramelo
FPCEUP José Damião Porto Alves de Castro
FPCEUP Maria Teresa Guimarães de Medina
FPCEUP Mário Jorge Ribeiro Candosa Vitória
FPCEUP Natércia Alves Pacheco NP
TEDeMoS – Work, Education, Development and Social Movements
Universidade do Porto - IInvestigação Científica na pré-graduação - PP-IJUP2010-178