Women's Football in Latin America

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. - 17 Sobreviver 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.