Mulheres no pódio: as histórias de vida das primeiras medalhistas olímpicas brasileiras / Women in the podium: life histories from first Brazilian Olympic medalists

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

13/04/2012

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This dissertation presents six individual life histories out of a total of twenty-eight accounts from Brazilian Olympic medalist women competing in basketball, volleyball and beach volley during the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. The so-called Olympic Games of the Modern Era are one of the most globally prestigious sociocultural phenomenon of contemporary times. Pierre de Coubertin\ s Olympism conferred worldwide exposure to this ideal of competition; it\ s first edition - held in 1896, being its startup. Initially, women were prevented from participating in this sports community, with their involvement oscillating during the history of Olympic Games. As far as Brazil\ s incursion is concerned, the first Brazilian Delegation officially entered the games in 1920, being exclusively masculine. The solitary premiere of women occurred only in 1932. However, including women in the Olympiad did not disseminate a massive feminine response to sports in Brazil. The first Olympic medals garnered by women took place in 1996. This sixty-four year gap represents quite graphically the perils faced by the Brazilian female athletes in their stubborn determination to play sports. A deep reflection on this considerable interval of more than sixty years between the debut of Brazilian female athletes and their first medals, is the genesis of this paper and the result of a research on the first Brazilian Olympic Female medalists\ own perceptions of their paradigmatic achievement. The sources for this research are primarily the life histories of six Olympic pioneer female medalists whose achievement was a watershed in the history of the Brazilian Olympic Games. Two situations are worth mentioning in order to correctly analyze the specificities of the Brazilian Olympic participation. First, it is worth noting the legal issues preventing the practice of certain sports by women. Secondly, it is interesting to point out that athletic professionalism hit men first; women only materializing the same level of expertise in Atlanta. The decision to concentrate all the analysis on this particular group, took shape due to their innovation as female athletes and due to the hypothesis that their discourse would aggregate significant examples of the grounds which laid the foundations to the Olympic sports for women in Brazil.

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brasil brazil histórias de vida jogos olímpicos life history mulheres olympic games women

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