Women's Football in Latin America: Social Challenges and Historical Perspectives Vol 1. Brazil

by Jorge Knijnik (Editor), Ana Costa (Editor)

Overview

The 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 themodern 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031079764
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	11/30/2022
Series:	New Femininities in Digital, Physical and Sporting Cultures
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	985 KB

About the Author

Jorge Knijnik is an Associate Professor at Western Sydney University, Australia, where he is a lecturer in the School of Education and a researcher in the Institute for Culture&Society.

Ana Costa is a journalist and researcher with a Master of Marts in Sports for Development (German Sport University), Germany. In addition, she is active in the digital media market as a content producer and strategist since 2001 having been part of the Brazilian Olympic Committee social media team.

Table of Contents

Section 1 – Introduction .- Before Football: the beginnings of female involvement with sport in Brazil’s 19th century, Victor Andrade de Melo and Jorge Knijnik.- Section 2 – Brazilian Women’s Football.- 2. Women's Football in Brazil: Extending the Game Beyond the Sports Field, Ana Zimerman and Soraia Chung Saura.- 3. The Heroine’s Journey: Brazilian Sports Media Narratives on Marta,  Ronaldo Helal and Leda Costa.- 4. Social capital and gender in grassroots football: insights from the sport for development programs in Brazil, Eva Soares Moura.- 5. Impacts of CONMEBOL guidelines on women’s football in Brazil: a case study of Grêmio Foot-ball Porto Alegrense and Sport Club Internacional,  Silvana Vilodre Goellner and Mayara Cristina Mendes Maia.- 6. The rise and fall of the Sereias:  beaches, football and the struggle for gender equity in Brazilian fields, Carla Luguetti, Jorge Knijnik andGabriela Garton.- 7. Female football fans in Brazil: feminist identification in the fan culture, Mariana Zuaneti Martins, Kerzia Railane Santos Silva and Gabriela Borel Delarmelina.- 8. The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in the Brazilian mainstream media: a content analysis, Soraya Barreto Januário, Cecilia Almeida Rodrigues Lima and Daniel Leal.- 9. From the stands to the centre of the court: Brazilian women futsal referees as change leaders, Andressa Hartmann, Myllena Camargo de Oliveira and Angelita Alice Jaeger.- 10. Women’s indigenous ethnofootball in Brazil: social representation and mimesis Maria Beatriz Rocha Ferreira and José Ronaldo Mendonça Fassherber.- 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, Leonardo Jose Mataruna-Dos-Santos and Mohammed Sayeed Khan.- 12.The Team from the Heart of the Amazon: An Ethnography of Esporte Clube Iranduba, Mark Biram.- 13. Women's Football in Brazil (1931-1941): history and representations, Kelen Katia Prates Silva and Fabiano Coelho.- 14.The multiple experiences of Brazilian women playing football: from the beginning to regulation (1915-1983), Giovana Capucim e Silva and Aira Bonfim.- Section 2: Dialogues Brazil and Hispanic countries.- 15.Women football in Brazil and in the US: Feminism, visibility, market and media,Claudia Kessler and Wagner Xavier Camargo.- 16. Elite Women’s Football image in Latin America: a multi-stakeholder Instagram posts analysis of the Brazilian and Mexican cases, Ana Costa and Ivan Martinez Garcia.- 17 Sobreviver jogando: Female Football Leagues of Bolivian Migrants in São Paulo, Brazil, Julia Haß and Stephanie Schütze.- 18.Beyond women: the coming challenges for gender footballing research in BrazilJorge Knijnik.