Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Moreira, Verónica
Alabarces, Pablo
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
1991-2019
Idioma
spa
Extent
223 p.
Derechos
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.0 Genérica (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Formato
application/pdf
Identificador
Cobertura
ARG
1991-2019
Abstract
Throughout the history of Argentine football, the practice of this sport by women has gone almost entirely unnoticed. This invisibility, nevertheless, is not necessarily evidence of its complete inexistence, but rather of its systematic exclusion from the country’s footballing tradition. Football in and of itself has not been constructed as the national sport, rather football practiced by men. Thus, this sport also implies a condition of gender: it is a space almost exclusively for me in which hegemonic masculine identities are constructed and reinforced. However, since 2015 a point of inflexion can be observed; this masculine hegemony has begun to be questioned, and women’s football is experiencing never-before-seen increases in participation levels and media attention while the country is also witnessing a boom in feminist movements like “Ni una menos” as well as collective action among players, of both the national team as well as Argentina’s domestic league. In 2019, AFA’s women’s league became “professional”. Before 2019, even though the league was considered amateur, there were players who were able to live –in reality, to survive– through their football practice through means beyond a professional contract. Faced with the advances of female footballers, a shift can be observed in the power negotiations between players and institutions such as AFA and football clubs.
This thesis began with an interest about why Argentine women’s football players have not been able to achieve the same levels of prominence as their male counterparts. However, since the beginning of this investigation in 2015, women’s football has changed massively –although it continues to exist in a subaltern position compared to the male version–, and my initial question has evolved to include another central query: how do power relations between sporting institutions and players develop and change? My research was carried out as an (auto-)ethnography on the women’s team of Club Deportivo UAI Urquiza, which competes in AFA’s first division, as well as Argentina’s women’s national team. Field work with UAI Urquiza was carried out between October 2015, when I began to play at the club, and December 2019, and the auto-ethnography of the national team was realized between February 2017 and July 2019, while I was part of the squad during the process of qualification and during the 2019 Women’s World Cup in
France.
This thesis began with an interest about why Argentine women’s football players have not been able to achieve the same levels of prominence as their male counterparts. However, since the beginning of this investigation in 2015, women’s football has changed massively –although it continues to exist in a subaltern position compared to the male version–, and my initial question has evolved to include another central query: how do power relations between sporting institutions and players develop and change? My research was carried out as an (auto-)ethnography on the women’s team of Club Deportivo UAI Urquiza, which competes in AFA’s first division, as well as Argentina’s women’s national team. Field work with UAI Urquiza was carried out between October 2015, when I began to play at the club, and December 2019, and the auto-ethnography of the national team was realized between February 2017 and July 2019, while I was part of the squad during the process of qualification and during the 2019 Women’s World Cup in
France.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales