Women on sport : corporealities and subjectivities

Work that discusses corporeality and subjectivity – from the point of departure of the intimate connection between construction of the body and of identities – are taking on an everincreasing centrality within social theory today. One particularly pressing problem that has been studied refers to how...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Adelman, Miriam
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
Repositorio:Revista Movimento (Porto Alegre. Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/2889
Acceso en línea:https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/Movimento/article/view/2889
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mulheres. Esporte. Corporalidade
Women. Sport. Corporeality.
Mujeres. Deporte. Corporalidad.
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Sumario:Work that discusses corporeality and subjectivity – from the point of departure of the intimate connection between construction of the body and of identities – are taking on an everincreasing centrality within social theory today. One particularly pressing problem that has been studied refers to how particular “body projects” influence gender relations and, in particular, the ways in which they mold or act upon female subjectivity. This paper looks at results from research conducted in two different sports – professional volleyball and show jumping – in order to reflect upon the power of sport both to work as a space of transgressive and empowering notions and ways of “being a woman” and to tend toward mere reproduction (or creation of) patriarcal forms that discipline women’s bodies and spirit.