Abstract

MOREIRA, Maria de Fátima Salum; PRADO, Vagner Matias do  and  CAVALEIRO, Maria Cristina. When football is of women: suspicions, regulations and transgressions in the field of genders and sexualities. Ensino em Re-Vista [online]. 2019, vol.26, n.2, pp.524-546.  Epub Aug 31, 2023. ISSN 1983-1730.  https://doi.org/10.14393/er-v26n2a2019-11.

This study discusses the perception that football playing youths have of themselves, when faced with the relationships of gender and sexuality, based on a study that involved observations during training sessions and six semi-structured interviews with a female team from an inner-state municipality of São Paulo. Through an understanding of sexuality and gender as socio-historical constructs, focus was directed toward the practice of football and the devices that produce "ways of being a woman" from normative policies. The conclusion was reached that normative policies of gender regulate the bodies of these young athletes guided by a sport considered as masculine; manage ways that aid in the body-styling of players; and institute rules aimed at steering them away from a possible approximation with the lesbian desire. Such findings revealed football to be a social practice of gender and gender dominated social practice, producing bodies/subjectivities that are managed through gender and sexuality devices. These also allow for one to (re)think the established relationships between gender, sexuality and body practices.

Keywords : Women’s Soccer; Gender Relations; Lesbophobia.

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