Women s Football in Latin America

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 second volume of this edited collection integrates a range of high-quality studies on women's football across Latin American countries to a global readership. From studies with marginalized communities, football fans but also the media and professional women's footballers, the chapters show how fútbol has been a key part of oppressive gender structures, and ways that women have fought for gender equity within this key cultural expression in Latin America. The book also suggests a fascinating research and activist agenda for women's football in the continent for the next decades.

Includes contributions Latin American scholars covering countries including Argentnia, Bolivia, Peru and Mexico Provides a comprehensive and in-depth investigation of the most popular sport in Latin America Includes social, anthropological and methodological perspectives

Auteur

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.

Gabriela Garton has a Bachelor s degree in Hispanic Studies from Rice University, a Master s degree in Sociology of Culture and Cultural Sociology from the National University of San Martin and a doctoral degree in Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Contenu
Section 1. Introduction.- Open fields of Latin American women footballers, Jorge Knijnik.- Section 2: Argentina.- From public parks to the Parc des Princes: A turning point in Argentine women's football and women's rights, Nemesia Hijós, Gabriela Garton and Verónica Moreira.- A nutmeg to patriarchy and oppression. La Coordinadora Sin Fronteras de Fútbol Feminista and women's fight for the right to football in Argentina, Julia Hang and Matthew Hawkins.- Healthy woman 'in non-football corpore': Football and femininity in the Argentine capital in the 1920's, Pablo Ariel Scharagrodsky.- La Nuestra Fútbol Feminista: strategies for collective empowerment, Belén Bramanti, Jimena Aon, Juliana Roman Lozano, María José Figueroa, Mónica Santino and Paula Korsakas.- Section 3: Colombia.- Power, policy and priorities: The experiences of Colombian women playing football, Sophie Legros, Sarah Oxford and Ana Margarita Salas de la Hoz.- An oral history of women's football in Colombia: building tools for collective action, Gabriela Ardila Biela.- Travels, time and gender among female football fans in Colombia, María Teresa Salcedo and Ómar Rivera.- We were there: the life history of three international women referees in the Colombian Men's Professional Football League, Eizabeth Oviedo.- Section 4: Mexico.- Grassroots Networks and the Survival of Women's Football in Mexico, 1971-1991, Joshua Nadel.- Fighting from the bleachers: women, feminism and barras Mexicanas, Claudia Pedraza Bucio.- Transgression and resistance: An approach to the history of Mexican women's football through the case of Alicia Vargas, Giovanni Alejandro Pérez Uriarte.- Women lecturers scoring goals: football and gender in the Mexican academia, Emilio Gerzaín Manzo Lozano, Ciria Margarita Salazar and Isela Guadalupe Ramos Carranza.- Section 5:Chile and Uruguay.- Gather as a collective to assert one's rights: example of the Association of Chilean Women Players (ANJUFF), Alison Hernandez, Cassandre Rivrais, Cécile Ottogalli-Mazzacavallo, Virginie Nicaise and Guillaume Bodet.- Gender and football in South America: a critical analysis of the 2008 U20 Chile Women's World Cup, Miguel Cornejo Améstica and Carlos Matus Castillo.- Absence of women in the history of Uruguayan football: Myth or Reality?, Bruno Mora Pereyra and Diego Alsina Machado.- Uruguayan women's football narratives: resistance stories and new perspectives, Evelise Amgarten Quitzau and Martina Pastorino Barcia.- Section 6: Bolivia, Venezuela Costa Rica and Cuba.- Bolivian women as professional footballers: the voice and the feminism of the karimachus, Eliana Aguilar Aguilar and Ana Alcazár Campos.- Socio-Political Dynamic of Women's Participation in Football in Venezuela, Rosa López de D´Amicoand Lesbia Verenzuela.- Mainstream media and women's football in Costa Rica, Ma Antonieta Ozols Rosales and Ma Antonieta Corrales Araya.- Women's football in Cuba. Its history, realities and perspectives, Marta Cañizares Hernández and Jesús Jorge Pereira León.- Section 7: Latin American conversations.- Has the Latin American Title IX arrived? The impact of the CONMEBOL institutional incentive regulations on South America's football landscape, Fernando Augusto Starepravo, Giovanna Xavier de Moura, Felipe Canan.- Football Gender studies in Latin America: the journey ahead us, Jorge Knijnik.