When football is of women: suspicions, regulations and transgressions in the field of genders and sexualities

• Autor(a) principal: Moreira, Maria de Fátima Salum
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Prado, Vagner Matias do, Cavaleiro, Maria Cristina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Ensino em Revista
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/emrevista/article/view/49345
• topic: Futebol Feminino; Relações de Gênero; Lesbofobia; Women's Soccer; Gender Relations; Lesbophobia

This study discusses the perceptionthat football playing youthshave 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 anunderstanding of sexualityand gender as socio-historical constructs, focus was directed toward the practice of football and the devices that produce "ways of being a woman"fromnormative policies.The conclusion was reached that normative policies of gender regulate the bodies of theseyoung athletes guided by a sport considered as masculine; manage ways that aid in the body-styling of players; and institute rules aimed at steeringthem 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.