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Book SynopsisThe chapters in the Women’s Football in Latin America two volumes will look at the social and historical means of the embodied representation of gender differences that has been deeply embedded in the history of Latin American women and football. The authors identify and analyse how, in a range of ways, Latin American women have found in-between spaces, amid severe macho structures, to establish and play their football. As a result, the book will be of interest to researchers and students of sport sociology, football studies, gender studies, comparative sports studies, sports history, and Latin American sporting culture.
The first volume of this edited collection brings together a variety of high-quality research investigating women’s football in Brazil to an international, English readership. The complex issues surrounding women and sport have attracted the attention of Brazilian academics since the early 1980s, and this book seeks to update that scholarship to the modern day, with chapters on sports media, 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup, grassroots women’s football, women’s football fans. The book also indicates the forthcoming research and political challenges for gender equity in Brazilian football.
Table of ContentsSection 1Introduction - Before Football: the beginnings of female involvement with sport in Brazil’s 19th century.
Section 2 – Brazilian Women’s Football.2. Women's Football in Brazil: Extending the Game Beyond the Sports Field.3. The Heroine’s Journey: Brazilian Sports Media Narratives on Marta.4. Social capital and gender in grassroots football: insights from the sport for development programs in Brazil.5. Impacts of CONMEBOL guidelines on women’s football in Brazil: a case study of Grêmio Foot-ball Porto Alegrense and Sport Club Internacional.6. The rise and fall of the Sereias: beaches, football and the struggle for gender equity in Brazilian fields.7. Female football fans in Brazil: feminist identification in the fan culture.8. The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in the Brazilian mainstream media: a content analysis.9. From the stands to the centre of the court: Brazilian women futsal referees as change leaders.10. Women’s indigenous ethnofootball in Brazil: social representation and mimesis.11. Social Leverage of Military Sports in Brazil: A model of the Armed Forces approach to develop the beautiful game for women in Latin America.12.The Team from the Heart of the Amazon: An Ethnography of Esporte.13. Women's Football in Brazil (1931-1941): history and representations.14.The multiple experiences of Brazilian women playing football: from the beginning to regulation (1915-1983).
Section 3: Dialogues Brazil and Hispanic countries.15.Women football in Brazil and in the US: Feminism, visibility, market and media.16. Elite Women’s Football image in Latin America: a multi-stakeholder Instagram posts analysis of the Brazilian and Mexican cases.17 Sobreviver jogando: Female Football Leagues of Bolivian Migrants in São Paulo, Brazil.18.Beyond women: the coming challenges for gender footballing research in Brazil.
