As racializações de gênero nas histórias de vida das jogadoras de futebol da Copa Loreta Valadares

Abstract

This thesis is a study that analyzed the football itineraries of the participants in a competition held in the city of Salvador-BA. We highlight the gaps in the history of women's participation in sports, which did not include the experiences of working-class, black and lesbian women, who were systematically made invisible and their leading roles in the struggles for the development of football were erased, both nationally and regionally. The presence of these players questions the places and discourses that reaffirm a normative femininity, constituted by the reproduction of a racially white and cisheteronormative standard regulated by the coloniality of power and gender. The theoretical frameworks that guided the thesis were anticolonial, decolonial, feminist perspectives and cultural studies and their interrelations with sport and leisure. We analyzed gender issues based on the life stories of the players participating in the Loreta Valadares Cup. In order to highlight these aspects, we used the narrative method, based on interviews with the players, combined with a questionnaire answered by members of the technical committees of the participating teams and an interview with one of the members of the event's organizing committee. In addition, we used participant observation, document analysis, a review of specific literature and a sociodemographic questionnaire to understand how women's soccer was organized in the context of Bahia. The results showed the racist and cisheteronormative colonial patterns that modulated the sociocultural contexts and regulated the experiences of the players, conditioning the practice of soccer to the condition of leisure. The experience of soccer in teams and social projects enabled resignifications and transformations in the processes of gender racialization, mobilized by educational processes, in which the players perceived themselves as a collective subject. The Loreta Valadares Cup represented a moment of rupture in the face of the reality of difficulties and neglect by public and private institutions regarding the development of women's football in the Bahian scenario by valuing these teams, encouraging the continuity of these projects, as well as contributing to the construction of the horizon of professionalization in the participants' itineraries.