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\'I am rain, sun and mud\': women\'s football in São Paulo city

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Author(s):
Mariane da Silva Pisani
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
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Examining board members:
Heloisa Buarque de Almeida; Heitor Frúgoli Junior; Silvana de Souza Nascimento; Leonardo Turchi Pacheco; Stephanie Schutze
Advisor: Heloisa Buarque de Almeida
Abstract

This thesis aims to understand how Social Markers of Difference - described here through analitical cathegories of gender, race, sexuality and class - permeate football practices of women living in São Paulo. We investigate how those cathegories inform the building of bodies and enable the weaving of a network among the players. By means of an ethnographic research aided by a photographic camera and carried out with five different women\'s football teams, I could have access to how women who choose football as a sport practice - as amateurs, professional or as a leisure activity - stablishes among themselves networks of support and solidarity. These networks, on turn, guides the circulation of those players around São Paulo, setting two kinds of circuits: the football circuit and the lesbian circuit. These networks also help the players to handle their sometimes simbolic or fisically violent daily lives, as well as to stablish bodily patterns that enables them to chose affective and sexual partners. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 13/10845-8 - Women's soccer from periphery to downtown: training and professionalization of soccer players in São Paulo
Grantee:Mariane da Silva Pisani
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate