Body projects: making, remaking, and inhabiting the woman's futebol body in Brazil

Fisher, Caitlin Davis; Dennehy, Jane

doi:10.1080/17430437.2014.997578

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“…Recently, a Special Issue of Sport in Society explored a myriad of young women's experiences in SDP as the subjects of HIV/AIDS prevention strategies [33,34], CSR campaigns [35], or as participants looking for sporting role models [36]. Other works in this series deliberate the role of the family in influencing young women's choices to participate in SGD interventions [37], or observe the utility of soccer in building confidence and negotiating gender(ed) identities [38].…”

Section: Sport Gender Development and The Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“We Are Prisoners in Our Own Homes”: Connecting the Environment, Gender-Based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights to Sport for Development and Peace in Nicaragua

Hayhurst

Centeno²

2019

Sustainability

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This paper draws on postcolonial feminist political ecology theory, feminist theories of violence and new materialist approaches to sport and physical cultural studies—combined with literature on the role of non-humans in international development—to unpack the connections between gender-based violence and the environment in sport, gender and development (SGD) programming in Nicaragua. To do this, postcolonial feminist participatory action research (PFPAR), including visual research methods such as photovoice, was used to better understand, and prioritize, young Nicaraguan women’s experiences of the environment and gender-based violence as they participated in an SGD program used to promote environmentalism and improve their sexual and reproductive health rights. To conclude, the importance of accounting for the broader physical environment in social and political forces was underlined as it shapes the lives of those on the receiving end of SGD interventions.

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Section: Sport Gender Development and The Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“We Are Prisoners in Our Own Homes”: Connecting the Environment, Gender-Based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights to Sport for Development and Peace in Nicaragua

Hayhurst

Centeno²

2019

Sustainability

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“…Soccer is one of the most popular sports worldwide. Despite the increase in women's participation, soccer continues to be a domain of the male athlete, and female players find many barriers to compete in that territory traditionally constructed as masculine both at a social and a sporting level and to be recognised and valued as athletes (Fisher and Dennehy, 2015;Pfister, 2015;Lunde and Gattario, 2017). However, resisting and defying normative discourses, more and more girls and women are playing soccer at varying levels of performance, from recreational to competitive elite.…”

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“…But sportswomen have to constantly articulate their body image as well as their personal and gender identity inside and outside the field (Wilinski, 2012). Many athletes, particularly those who compete in masculine sports such as soccer, find it very difficult to adjust to non-dominant forms of corporality and engage in surveillance and management practises (e.g., dieting, clothing, make-up) that serve to comply and thus perpetuate the sociocultural values of the feminine, assuming a heterosexual(ised) body and legitimising athletic participation through an emphasis on hyperfemininity (Fisher and Dennehy, 2015;Heinecken, 2015;Bennett et al, 2016;Lunde and Gattario, 2017;Cosh et al, 2019;Devonport et al, 2019;Sanders, 2020).…”

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Inhabiting the Body(ies) in Female Soccer Players: The Protective Role of Positive Body Image

Godoy-Izquierdo

Díaz

2021

Front. Psychol.

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In a social and sports world dominated by weight-centred beliefs and highly exigent and gendered athletic and beauty body standards, the vulnerability for eating pathology, i.e., disordered eating and eating disorders (EDs), is elevated among women athletes. The aim of this study was to explore body image facets and ED risk among female athletes in masculinised sports such as soccer. Forty-five federated amateur female soccer players from Spain participated in this study, voluntarily complying with an extensive evaluation protocol on attitudes towards body and appearance and eating practises. The participants overall reported self-representations of their bodies that corresponded to their reality as athletes, but their body ideals were also more demanding in terms of low fat and muscularity, in association with the functionality of their body and the physical demands of their athletic activity. Despite having a fairly high positive body image and body satisfaction, they also expressed negative attitudes towards their bodies. Around 2 out of 10 players were at risk of suffering from an ED. Players with negative attitudes towards their bodies had an odd 12 times likely to develop an ED compared to those with lower self-devaluation, after adjusting for BMI and body perceptions (OR = 12.3, p < 0.01). On the contrary, players who appreciate their bodies and hold a positive body image had an odd 83% lower to suffer from eating pathology, after adjusting for BMI and body satisfaction (OR = 0.17, p < 0.05). Our findings support the healthy and protective role of positive body image in sports contexts. Body attitudes should be addressed in preventive and therapeutic efforts for reducing the prevalence of EDs in women's sports, within both a “negative” and a “positive” paradigm of body image.

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“…Lezbiyen damgaları da onları cinsel olarak muğlak ve sapkın bir kategoriye sokarak daha da fazla dışlıyor. (543) 10 Burada da anlatıldığı gibi, özellikle dış görünüş açısından "kadınsı" normlara uyan kadınlar için futbol görece daha rahat var olunabilen bir alan (da Costa 2014, Fisher ve Dennehy 2015, Ben Porat 2020, Peeters, Elling ve Van Sterkenburg 2019. Türkiye'de yıllar boyunca futbolcu kadınlar antrenörlerinden saçlarını uzatmaları gerektiği tembih ve talepleriyle top oynadılar.…”

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Türkiye futbolunda kadın: “İş”i olmayan ve olmaması gereken yerde

Nuhrat¹

2020

Fe Dergi Feminist Ele

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Futbol dünyanın birçok yerinde esas olarak bir erkek meşgalesi. Dahası, baskın erkekliğin kurulmasında önemli rol oynuyor. Bu da beraberinde kadın futbolunun ikincilleştirilmesini, değersiz ve önemsiz görülmesini ve futbol üzerinden kadının ötekileştirilmesini getiriyor. Bu yazıda, değersizleştirmenin bileşenleri olarak futbolun kadın için bir iş olmaktansa hobi ya da bir toplumsal ilerleme aracı olarak değerlendirildiğini öne sürüyorum ve buradan hareketle de futboldaki kadının "olmaması gereken yerde olan" ve tehdit ("matter out of place") muamelesi gördüğü savını ortaya koyuyorum. Böylece sadece kavramsal ya da sembolik olarak değil, fiziksel ve duyusal olarak da kadının futbolun dışına itilmesini ayrıntılandırıyorum. Yazı, 2019 ve 2020 senelerinde toplamda dört ay çoğunlukla İstanbul'da yaptığım niteliksel saha çalışmama dayanıyor. Çalışma süresince futbolcu, antrenör, kulüp ve federasyon yetkilileri, spor gazetecileri ve sponsorlarla derinlemesine görüşmeler ve maçlarda gözlem yaptım Anahtar Kelimeler: Kadın futbolu, ötekileştirme, araçsallaştırma, hobileştirme, "olmaması gereken yerde olma" Women in football in Turkey: Nonworkers out of place Football (soccer) around the world is predominantly a masculine engagement. Moreover, it is a key practice in the production and reinforcement of hegemonic masculinity. As such women's football is largely overlooked and trivialized and women are othered through football. In this paper, I demonstrate how such trivialization entails an outlook whereby football is deemed a hobby or a social instrument for women rather than work. Feeding off of this viewpoint, women in football are perceived and treated as threatening "matter out of place." Through this, I show that women are pushed out of football not only conceptually and symbolically but also quite physically. This paper is based on four months of qualitative research in 2019 and 2020, mostly in Istanbul when I interviewed footballers, trainers, club and federation administrators, media representatives and sponsors and conducted observation at matches.

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Body projects: making, remaking, and inhabiting the woman's futebol body in Brazil

Cited by 32 publications

References 23 publications

“We Are Prisoners in Our Own Homes”: Connecting the Environment, Gender-Based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights to Sport for Development and Peace in Nicaragua

“We Are Prisoners in Our Own Homes”: Connecting the Environment, Gender-Based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights to Sport for Development and Peace in Nicaragua

Inhabiting the Body(ies) in Female Soccer Players: The Protective Role of Positive Body Image

Türkiye futbolunda kadın: “İş”i olmayan ve olmaması gereken yerde

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