Women’s Football in Latin America

Jorge Knijnik is an Associate Professor at Western Sydney University, Australia, where he is a lecturer in the School of Education and a researcher in the Institute for Culture & Society. Ana Costa is a journalist and researcher with a Master of Marts in Sports for Development (German Sport University), Germany. In addition, she is active in the digital media market as a content producer and strategist since 2001 having been part of the Brazilian Olympic Committee social media team.

Section 1 - Introduction .- Before Football: the beginnings of female involvement with sport in Brazil's 19th century, Victor Andrade de Melo and Jorge Knijnik.- Section 2 - Brazilian Women's Football.- 2. Women's Football in Brazil: Extending the Game Beyond the Sports Field, Ana Zimerman and Soraia Chung Saura.- 3. The Heroine's Journey: Brazilian Sports Media Narratives on Marta,  Ronaldo Helal and Leda Costa.- 4. Social capital and gender in grassroots football: insights from the sport for development programs in Brazil, Eva Soares Moura.- 5. Impacts of CONMEBOL guidelines on women's football in Brazil: a case study of Grêmio Foot-ball Porto Alegrense and Sport Club Internacional,  Silvana Vilodre Goellner and Mayara Cristina Mendes Maia.- 6. The rise and fall of the Sereias:  beaches, football and the struggle for gender equity in Brazilian fields, Carla Luguetti, Jorge Knijnik andGabriela Garton.- 7. Female football fans in Brazil: feminist identification in the fan culture, Mariana Zuaneti Martins, Kerzia Railane Santos Silva and Gabriela Borel Delarmelina.- 8. The 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup in the Brazilian mainstream media: a content analysis, Soraya Barreto Januário, Cecilia Almeida Rodrigues Lima and Daniel Leal.- 9. From the stands to the centre of the court: Brazilian women futsal referees as change leaders, Andressa Hartmann, Myllena Camargo de Oliveira and Angelita Alice Jaeger.- 10. Women's indigenous ethnofootball in Brazil: social representation and mimesis Maria Beatriz Rocha Ferreira and José Ronaldo Mendonça Fassherber.- 11.Social Leverage of Military Sports in Brazil: A model of the Armed Forces approach to develop the beautiful game for women in Latin America, Leonardo Jose Mataruna-Dos-Santos and Mohammed Sayeed Khan.- 12.The Team from the Heart of the Amazon: An Ethnography of Esporte Clube Iranduba, Mark Biram.- 13. Women's Football in Brazil (1931-1941): history and representations, Kelen Katia Prates Silva and Fabiano Coelho.- 14.The multiple experiences of Brazilian women playing football: from the beginning to regulation (1915-1983), Giovana Capucim e Silva and Aira Bonfim.- Section 2: Dialogues Brazil and Hispanic countries.- 15.Women football in Brazil and in the US: Feminism, visibility, market and media,Claudia Kessler and Wagner Xavier Camargo.- 16. Elite Women's Football image in Latin America: a multi-stakeholder Instagram posts analysis of the Brazilian and Mexican cases, Ana Costa and Ivan Martinez Garcia.- 17Sobreviver jogando: Female Football Leagues of Bolivian Migrants in São Paulo, Brazil, Julia Haß and Stephanie Schütze.- 18.Beyond women: the coming challenges for gender footballing research in BrazilJorge Knijnik.