Victimidad estratégica, Comisión de la Verdad, Género y Memoria en el Perú. Escritura testimonial de prisioneras políticas del PCP-Sendero Luminoso sobrevivientes a la dictadura de Fujimori / Strategic Victimity, Truth Commission, Gender and Memory in Peru. Testimonial Writing from PCP-Shining Path Women Political Prisoners Survivors of Fujimori Dictatorship

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In July 2001, that is, one month after the creation of the Truth and ReconciliationCommission in Peru, the women political prisoners of the Communist Party of PeruShining Path in the high-security jails of Chorrillos (Lima) and Yanamayo (Puno) produced testimonies and drawings about their living conditions in jail under thedictatorship of Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000), with the purpose of participating in theconstruction of an “Authentic Truth Commission.” From critical victimology andcritical feminist criminology, Anouk Guiné proposes and elaborates the conceptof strategic victimity to understand the way the inmates operationalize their stories inorder to contribute to the political objectives of their party and to the construction ofwomen’s collective memory in the face of State violence, mainly through a focus on thepolitization of the body (of women prisoners and their women relatives) via torture,illness, labor and maternity.