Resenha. Women And Sport In Brazil: Many Roles, a Single Struggle

As a child growing up in the 1950s, I knew the names of lots of Brazilian athletes.  Amongst them were Gilmar, Djalma Santos, Didi, Garrincha, Vava and, of course, Pelé, only ten years older than me in 1958 when, as a seventeen year old, he announced himself to the world by scoring two goals in his country’s 5-2 win over Sweden in the World Cup Final. I doubt if I even have to point out that all of the athletes whose names I knew so well were male footballers. The only female Brazilian athlete who came to my attention around the same time was Maria Bueno who won the Wimbledon ladies’ singles title for the first time in that same summer when Pelé and his teammates were hitting the headlines and international football would never be quite the same again. Since then male footballers and even Formula One drivers have come and gone but any new knowledge on my part about women’s sport in Brazil has been lamentably limited, much to my shame even though it is largely a consequence of the global lack of attention that has been paid to women’s sport in the intervening years. I came to Women and Sport in Brazil, therefore, eager to learn and learn I did.

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