Overview
- Includes contributions from a variety of Latin American scholars
- Provides a comprehensive and in-depth investigation of the most popular sport in Latin America, played by women
- Includes social, anthropological and methodological perspectives
Part of the book series: New Femininities in Digital, Physical and Sporting Cultures (NFDPSC)
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Footballing Roots
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Contesting Football
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Experiencing Football
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Another Football Is Possible
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women’s Football in Latin America
Book Subtitle: Social Challenges and Historical Perspectives Vol 1. Brazil
Editors: Jorge Knijnik, Ana Costa
Series Title: New Femininities in Digital, Physical and Sporting Cultures
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07976-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07975-7Published: 01 December 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-07978-8Published: 01 December 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-07976-4Published: 30 November 2022
Series ISSN: 2522-0330
Series E-ISSN: 2522-0349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 296
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sport Science , Latin American Culture, Gender Studies