“I stand on the pitch as in life”: an analysis of feminist football in the Villa 31 using gender theories
The analysis of sport from a gender perspective appears belatedly in the Argentine academy and feminism. However, in recent years there have been notable advances in the feminist criticism of sport as a space where sexist culture and gender inequality are sustained. The objective of this article is...
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Facultad de Humanidades y Artes. UNR
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://zonafranca.unr.edu.ar/index.php/ZonaFranca/article/view/163 |
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| Sumario: | The analysis of sport from a gender perspective appears belatedly in the Argentine academy and feminism. However, in recent years there have been notable advances in the feminist criticism of sport as a space where sexist culture and gender inequality are sustained. The objective of this article is to analyze how the feminist movement is appropriating football, the most popular sport in the country. I inquire what continuities and ruptures take place in this process regarding the experience of gender: how can feminism appropriate a sport that symbolizes hegemonic masculinity and is part of the masculine identity construction in Argentina? Is a competitive practice compatible with sorority? Can the aggressiveness and physical friction that characterize soccer be constructive when they are embodied by female bodies? What bodies have legitimacy to carry out these practices? To investigate these questions, I will put into dialogue the theories of gender with the ethnographic research that I carry out together with La Nuestra Fútbol Feminista, a group made up of coaches, players, former players, popular educators, and women from the Villa 31 in Buenos Aires. |
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