Women's club football in Brazil and Colombia : a critical analysis of players, media and institutions / Mark Biram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Biram, Mark, author.

Series:

Liverpool Latin American studies ; Volume 30.

Liverpool Latin American Studies ; Volume 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soccer for women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.;)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Liverpool, England : Liverpool University Press, [2024]

Summary:

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library as part of the Opening the Future project with COPIM.The first women's football book on Latin America centring the perspectives of players brings rare interview material that cuts through the clichés to uncover the lived reality of women footballers. It includes 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 that 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) game.Following this, drawing on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork in which 33 semi-structured interviews were carried out with players and institutional figures, 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 Esporte Clube Iranduba provides 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.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Figures

Glossary of Terms

Acknowledgements

Foreword from Silvana Goellner

Introduction

1 Mis-representing the Agenda

The Case of Yoreli Rincón at the Women's Copa Libertadores 2018

2 Football Institutions

3 Atlético Huila

The Champions of South America

4 Mermaids in the Land of the King

5 The Team from the Heart of the Amazon

6 Surveying the Field from the Players' Perspective

Overall Conclusions and Policy Recommendations

References

Appendix: Semi-Structured Interview List

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80207-521-6