Abstract:The article relates gender identity and sport and contextualizes narratives of women engaged in sports of male tradition and predominance, from the memory of their sporting trajectories in childhood, in school physical education and in the alterities experienced in practice of sports in adulthood. The study is configured, from the methodological point of view, as participant observation carried out with young women practicing collective confrontation sports in a public leisure center in the suburb of Rio de Ja… Show more
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