Forças Armadas, substantivo feminino: o ingresso das mulheres nas Academias Militares e suas consequências para o habitus militar brasileiro

Abstract

This study aims, in general, to understand to what extent the female insertion in the Military Academies of the Armed Forces alter the habitus of the Brazilian military field. Based on the observation that the female entry into the high office made the boundary between the military “I” and the “other” confused, which the military identity uses as an opposition reference, due to the need to insert in the “we” the body that represents the opposite of a soldier's body, we propose the argument that the experiences, customs and characteristics of the female body made possible changes in the basic values of the Brazilian military spirit. From the conceptual contribution proposed by Pierre Bourdieu, it is understood that this set of experiences, customs and characteristics, constitute the habitus of an individual, the reference matrix of his practices. This habitus is formed throughout the life of the subject, who travels through different fields and spaces and, in all, acquires new layers that are added to the habitus and that will influence their way of acting and thinking. This way of understanding the relationships between the individual and his environment allows, finally, that we analyze how the military environment receives and adapts to its parameters other references, other bodies and other practices that were previously opposed to the Officer.