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Capturing more than a century of struggles, this stirring cultural history traces the evolution of women's participation in sports in Latin America, from physical education to amateur clubs to the creation of national teams.
List of contents
List of Figures
Introduction
1. Physical Education and Women’s Sports in Argentina and Chile
2. Policing Women’s Sports in Brazil
3. Brazilian Sportswomen Defying Prohibition
4. Physical Education and Women’s Sports in Mexico and Central America
5. The Boom and Bust of Mexican Women’s Football
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Brenda Elsey is an associate professor of history at Hofstra University and the author of
Citizens and Sportsmen: Fútbol and Politics in Twentieth-Century Chile. In addition to numerous scholarly articles on politics and popular culture in Latin America, her writing has appeared in the
Guardian,
The New Republic, and
Sports Illustrated. She co-hosts the weekly feminism and sports podcast
Burn It All Down.
Joshua Nadel is an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at North Carolina Central University. He is the author of
Fútbol! Why Soccer Matters in Latin America as well as numerous scholarly book chapters. He has published essays in
Foreign Policy, the
Washington Post's newsletter
Monkey Cage,
Zócalo Public Square, and the
Telegraph (London).
Summary
Capturing more than a century of struggles, this stirring cultural history traces the evolution of women’s participation in sports in Latin America, from physical education to amateur clubs to the creation of national teams.
