Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Mauricio Santos; SOUZA, Anna Stella Silva de  and  NUNOMURA, Myrian. Chalking up space for women in artistic gymnastics: the consolidation of uneven bars between the years 1952-1964. Rev. Motriviv. [online]. 2021, vol.33, n.64, e77792.  Epub Mar 17, 2021. ISSN 2175-8042.  https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8042.2021.e77792.

Permeated by the ideological system of gender, which influenced the roles and values that dictated what women could and could not do in society and in sport, female gymnasts began to compete in Artistic Gymnastics (AG) in the early decades of the 20th century. The aim of this study was to shed light on the consolidation of official apparatus in the competitive format of women’s AG through the analysis of uneven parallel bars, an apparatus initially adapted from the male discipline. It is perceived that, over time, women were subjugated to the medical and social discourse that dictated the use of their bodies at the core of this sport and in society. But through small steps and the development imposed by the athletes themselves, there was a need to build their own apparatus that symbolically reveals that women wanted to direct women’s AG on their own terms.

Keywords : Gymnastics apparatus; Women in sports; Olympic games.

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