Women’s Football in Latin America

Jorge Knijnik is an Associate Professor at Western Sydney University, Australia, where he is a lecturer in the School of Education  and a researcher in the Institute for Culture & Society.Gabriela Garton has a Bachelor’s degree in Hispanic Studies from Rice University, a Master’s degree in Sociology of Culture and Cultural Sociology from the National University of San Martin and a doctoral degree in Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

• Section 1. Introduction.- Open fields of Latin American women footballers, Jorge Knijnik.- Section 2: Argentina.- From public parks to the Parc des Princes: A turning point in Argentine women’s football and women’s rights, Nemesia Hijós, Gabriela Garton and Verónica Moreira.- “A nutmeg to patriarchy and oppression.” La Coordinadora Sin Fronteras de Fútbol Feminista and women’s fight for the right to football in Argentina, Julia Hang and Matthew Hawkins.- Healthy woman ‘in non-football corpore’: Football and femininity in the Argentine capital in the 1920's, Pablo Ariel Scharagrodsky.- La Nuestra Fútbol Feminista: strategies for collective empowerment, Belén Bramanti, Jimena Aon, Juliana Roman Lozano, María José Figueroa, Mónica Santino and Paula Korsakas.- Section 3: Colombia.- Power, policy and priorities: The experiences of Colombian women playing football, Sophie Legros, Sarah Oxford and Ana Margarita Salas de la Hoz.- An oral history of women’s football in Colombia: building tools for collective action, Gabriela Ardila Biela.- Travels, time and gender among female football fans in Colombia, María Teresa Salcedo and Ómar Rivera.- We were there: the life history of three international women referees in the Colombian Men’s Professional Football League, Eizabeth Oviedo.- Section 4: Mexico.- Grassroots Networks and the Survival of Women’s Football in Mexico, 1971-1991, Joshua Nadel.- Fighting from the bleachers:  women, feminism and barras Mexicanas, Claudia Pedraza Bucio.- Transgression and resistance: An approach to the history of Mexican women's football through the case of Alicia Vargas, Giovanni Alejandro Pérez Uriarte.- Women lecturers scoring goals: football and gender in the Mexican academia, Emilio Gerzaín Manzo Lozano, Ciria Margarita Salazar and Isela Guadalupe Ramos Carranza.- Section 5:Chile and Uruguay.- Gather as a collective to assert one's rights: example of the Association of Chilean Women Players (ANJUFF), Alison Hernandez, Cassandre Rivrais, Cécile Ottogalli-Mazzacavallo, Virginie Nicaise and Guillaume Bodet.- Gender and football in South America: a critical analysis of the 2008 U20 Chile Women’s World Cup, Miguel Cornejo Améstica and Carlos Matus Castillo.-  Absence of women in the history of Uruguayan football: Myth or Reality?, Bruno Mora Pereyra and Diego Alsina Machado.- Uruguayan women’s football narratives: resistance stories and new perspectives, Evelise Amgarten Quitzau and Martina Pastorino Barcia.- Section 6: Bolivia, Venezuela Costa Rica and Cuba.- Bolivian women as professional footballers: the voice and the feminism of the karimachus, Eliana Aguilar Aguilar and Ana Alcazár Campos.- Socio-Political Dynamic of Women’s Participation in Football in Venezuela, Rosa López de D´Amicoand Lesbia Verenzuela.- Mainstream media and women’s football in Costa Rica, Ma Antonieta Ozols Rosales and Ma Antonieta Corrales Araya.- Women's football in Cuba. Its history, realities and perspectives, Marta Cañizares Hernández and Jesús Jorge Pereira León.- Section 7: Latin American conversations.- Has the Latin American Title IX arrived? The impact of the CONMEBOL institutional incentive regulations on South America’s football landscape, Fernando Augusto Starepravo, Giovanna Xavier de Moura, Felipe Canan.- Football Gender studies in Latin America: the journey ahead us, Jorge Knijnik.