Liberdade, ainda que tardia : a revolução feminina no futebol Brasileiro

The widespread feminist protests raised during and by the 2019 World Cup have revealed football as a strong locus of contestation of the gender order within and outside the sporting world. This chapter discusses key questions of feminist struggle, emancipation, and resistance within Brazilian football. We ask whether we could affirm that through the struggles for gender equity in football, there is a new feminist revolution happening in the country. We try to find the answers by examining places where oppression as well as social and gender resistances occur: in everyday life, in the concreteness of the streets, workplaces, leisure venues, schools, and in the day-to-day of our cyber life. To investigate the fight for football equity we employ gender theoretical lenses to understand and try to modify the existing oppressive realities: these struggles become true when they present results in emancipatory consciousness and for people's lives, particularly girls' and women. We conclude there is a genuine need for ongoing examination of everyday life's tensions in which gender issues emerge, whether as oppression or, more recently, also as resistance.