Women's Football in Latin America: Social Challenges and Historical Perspectives Vol 2. Hispanic Countries

ISBN-13: 9783031091261 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Knijnik, Jorge

Spis treści

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.

“A nutmeg to patriarchy and oppression.” La Coordinadora Sin Fronteras de Fútbol Feminista and women’s fight for the right to football in Argentina.

Healthy woman ‘in non-football corpore’: Football and femininity in the Argentine capital in the 1920's

La Nuestra Fútbol Feminista: strategies for collective empowerment.

Section 3: Colombia.- Power, policy and priorities: The experiences of Colombian women playing football.

An oral history of women’s football in Colombia: building tools for collective action.

Travels, time and gender among female football fans in Colombia.

We were there: the life history of three international women referees in the Colombian Men’s Professional Football League.

Section 4: Mexico.- Grassroots Networks and the Survival of Women’s Football in Mexico, 1971-1991.

Fighting from the bleachers:  women, feminism and barras Mexicanas.

Transgression and resistance: An approach to the history of Mexican women's football through the case of Alicia Vargas.

Women lecturers scoring goals: football and gender in the Mexican academia.

Section 5: Chile and Uruguay.- Gather as a collective to assert one's rights: example of the Association of Chilean Women Players (ANJUFF).

Gender and football in South America: a critical analysis of the 2008 U20 Chile Women’s World Cup.

Absence of women in the history of Uruguayan football: Myth or Reality?.

Uruguayan women’s football narratives: resistance stories and new perspectives.

Section 6: Bolivia, Venezuela Costa Rica and Cuba.- Bolivian women as professional footballers: the voice and the feminism of the karimachus.

Socio-Political Dynamic of Women’s Participation in Football in Venezuela.

Mainstream media and women’s football in Costa Rica.

Women's football in Cuba. Its history, realities and perspectives.

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.

Football Gender studies in Latin America: the journey ahead us.

O autorze

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.

Blurb

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.

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.