The Beautiful Game? Hegemonic Masculinity, Women and Football in Brazil and Argentina

Wood, David

doi:10.1111/blar.12633

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“…Previous research concerned with treatment discrimination has established that minority groups likely will experience adverse treatment based on a misalignment with social norms (Cunningham & Sagas, 2004). Subsequently, for male-dominated spaces such as esports, hegemonic masculinity is contested when underrepresented groups are more present in power and decision-making roles (Wood, 2018). While esports is a relatively emergent field, it is imperative to encourage female leadership in all aspects of the industry.…”

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The playing experiences of esport participants: An analysis of treatment discrimination and hostility in esport environments

Darvin

Vooris

Mahoney

2020

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The eSport industry has seen rapid growth over the previous decade with additional opportunities for participants to compete in competitive and casual environments. As such, the sport industry has taken notice of this increase in popularity and exposure for eSport. A recent call to arms by sport management scholars suggests that the field of sport management needs to broaden research endeavors to include analyses of eSport and eSport spaces. To that end, this investigation serves as one of the first that investigates the playing experiences of eSport participants with a particular focus on the presence of discrimination and hostility in playing environments for men and women competitors. Previous events within the eSport industry, such as the now infamous harassment of female gamers known as Gamergate, suggests that female eSport players may experience discrimination and hostility at higher rates than their male counterparts. Guided by the frameworks of hegemonic masculinity and treatment discrimination, this investigation gauged the experiences of men and women eSport participants with discrimination and hostility in eSport playing environments. Results indicated that female eSport participants reported experiencing instances of treatment discrimination more frequently than their male counterparts, while male participants reported experiencing hostility more frequently. Results aim to assist the eSport industry as well as sport management scholars in guiding new policy to create inclusive spaces for eSport enthusiasts and career hopefuls.

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The playing experiences of esport participants: An analysis of treatment discrimination and hostility in esport environments

Darvin

Vooris

Mahoney

2020

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“…This followed in the wake of the first Women's South American Championship, organized by CONMEBOL earlier that year, and preceded by a month the inaugural Women's World Cup organized by FIFA. Only recently has this history and presence of the women's game in Argentina been recognized (Román Lozano, 2018 ; Santino, 2018 ; Wood, 2018 ; Elsey and Nadel, 2019 ; Garton, 2019 ; Pujol, 2019 ; Saralegui and Rodríguez, 2019 ), with the profile of women's football greatly enhanced by the strong performance of the national team at the 2019 Women's World Cup in France.…”

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The Impact of Covid-19 on Women's Experiences of and Through Football in Buenos Aires

Lozano¹,

Santino²,

Wood

2021

Front. Sports Act. Living

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This research report explores the impact of Covid-19 on women's football in Buenos Aires. The suspension of all forms of football in Argentina as part of the country's hard lockdown measures threatens to undo significant gains made in women's football in recent years. By focussing on the experiences of key actors in a feminist Civil Society Organization (CSO) and a newly professional women's team, respectively, we examine what the pandemic has meant for women's football and for women football players at different levels of the game. We also consider the potential impact of the current situation on the future of women's football in Argentina, representative of wider social advances for women in the country.

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“…It was only during the 1971 Extraordinary Congress of UEFA that most European NAs agreed to lift a ban that had prevented women from accessing all member club grounds since the 1920s. Therefore, while women continued to play and compete during the twentieth century, the organisation of women's football in many European countries, including Italy, had remained in an 'underground fashion' for five decades (Williams and Woodhouse 1999).…”

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Integration between women’s and men’s football clubs: a comparison between Brazil, China and Italy

Valenti

Peng

Rocha

2021

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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Despite an increasing interest from media and fans, one of the challenges women's football currently faces is the lack of resources to sustain its growth at both grassroots and elite levels. To cope with this issue, National Associations (NAs) of various countries have recently formulated a policy demanding men's football clubs to integrate a women's team within their structure. Using the Multiple Streams Framework, this article examines the context, timing and conditions leading to the implementation of the policy of integration in three different countries: Brazil, China and Italy. The authors collected and analysed policy documents and media reports to identify factors influencing the policy formulation. Results indicate declining performances of senior women's national team, low participation rates, external pressures from supranational football institutions and increased societal need to reduce gender disparities contribute to influence NAs' engagement with policies for the development of women's football. While potentially helping women's football enhance its visibility and commercialisation, the policy of integration risks the women's game continuing to be seen as subaltern to its men's counterpart. Implications of the policy of integration for the long-term development of women's football and its possible future scenarios are discussed.

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The Beautiful Game? Hegemonic Masculinity, Women and Football in Brazil and Argentina

Cited by 18 publications

References 12 publications

The playing experiences of esport participants: An analysis of treatment discrimination and hostility in esport environments

The playing experiences of esport participants: An analysis of treatment discrimination and hostility in esport environments

The Impact of Covid-19 on Women's Experiences of and Through Football in Buenos Aires

Integration between women’s and men’s football clubs: a comparison between Brazil, China and Italy

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