Women's Club Football in Brazil and Colombia : A Critical Analysis of Players, Media and Institutions

The first women's football book on Latin America centring the perspectives of players brings rare interview material which cuts through the clichés to uncovers the lived reality of women footballers It brings the first large-scale survey of South American women footballers' views into dialogue with institutional and media perspectives. The early chapters consider the backdrop Latin American women footballers operate in, a media and institutional panorama which privileges a heteronormative athletic femininity whilst ensuring women's football is never portrayed as anything other than an inferior version of the hegemonic (men's) football. Following this, drawing on 9-months of ethnographic data in which 33 semi-structured interviews with players and institutional figures were carried out, this pioneering book foregrounds the lived reality of women's football in three strategic locations. Firstly, three-months were spent in the Amazon region of Brazil where Clube Esporte Iranduba provide a fascinating alternative model for the growth of women's football. This is contrasted with Santos FC where women's football tends to be constantly overshadowed by the presence of banal patriarchy and finally with another fleeting glimpse of how another model is possible at Atlético Huila of Colombia, the surprise winner of the women's Copa Libertadores in 2018.

• | Author: MARK. BIRAM
• | Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 02, 2024
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1802073620
• | ISBN-13: 9781802073621