Futebol é coisa de mulher! Um estudo etnográfico sobre o “lugar” feminino no futebol clubístico

Abstract

This thesis issues the processes of feminine participation in football clubs in Brazil. Since an ethnographic research about the “Núcleo de Mulheres Gremistas” and the “Espaço da Mulher Colorada”, feminine groups respectively related to the clubs “Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense” and “Sport Club Internacional”, taken as examples of “women’s place” in professional football clubs in Brazil, the feminine participation in physical, political and symbolic terms were discussed. Methodologically, the research relayed on interviews with members of both groups, as well as photographs and participant observation on meetings, parties and social actions promoted by them. In theoretical terms, the thesis discusses gender and sports, mainly the gendered social consumption of football in Brazil. An analysis of the cultural production related to football in Brazil were made, and included academic bibliography, as well as films, literature and music, showing that football world, as an universe of action is still a male-cente