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SUMMARY:The Portuguese Carnation Revolution and the female body in protest
  - Ana Margarida Dias Martins\, University of Exeter
DTSTART:20150425T143000Z
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CONTACT:Torcato Martins
DESCRIPTION:On the 25th April 1974\, the streets of Lisbon enabled the Car
 nation Revolution\, not only physically\, but also symbolically\, lending 
 iconicity to Lisbon as the city of political idealism. This fostered a col
 lective memory of the street as a “miraculous” public space: open to a
 ll\, and supposedly unblemished by violence\, blood\, or physical conflict
 . We will address this brand of “street lyricism\,” interrogating it i
 n the context of a feminist public demonstration planned to take place in 
 Parque Eduardo VII in central Lisbon almost a year following the revolutio
 n. Organised by the Movimento de Libertação das Mulheres (MLM)\, the dem
 onstration was intended to signal International Women’s Year as declared
  by the United Nations\, and to call attention to the fact that\, despite 
 the occurrence of the revolution in April of the previous year\, Salazar
 ’s laws continued unaltered\, since the Constitution had not yet been ch
 anged. However\, the feminist protest never took place\, as approximately 
 2000 men appeared in the park to fight the women\, hitting them\, grabbing
  their bodies\, and attempting to undress them. In this talk\, we will loo
 k at the public appearance of the women’s bodies in the park\, as they c
 laimed\, and reacted to\, the public sphere in the time of the interval be
 tween 1974 and the codification of democracy into laws. I will suggest tha
 t the feminist protest did not obey the kind of “street lyricism” stru
 cturing revolutionary public appearance\, and that this may have confirmed
  perceptions of Portuguese feminism as being unreal.
LOCATION:St Paul’s Centre\, Hills Road\, Cambridge CB2 1JP
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