The unseen journey of women from 1923 until Greek dictatorship: Gender violence and state power

The purpose of this research is to highlight the political, social, and personal struggle of women in a broad time frame, from 1923 to 1974. For the research we used qualitative method, and ten interviews took place with women who developed various forms of actions in this period of historical time. In the light of women's personal testimonies as lived experiences and the study from existing archival material, we aimed to identify the 'myths' and 'silences', both in the testimonies and in aspects of public history and life concerning the impact on all levels of their lives, given the subjective element in the narratives. The aim of the study was to examine the historical time, based on the action that women developed through the diverse and highly demanding roles they took on, in the light of gender violence as a form of exercising power and control by the state or the authority in question.