Mulheres, gênero e surf: narrativas sobre inserção e permanência na prática

Abstract

This research was motivated by personal concerns, in my place as a woman in society, subject socially imposed impositions to the feminine condition. The present study aimed to discuss gender issues in the sports field, with the objective of female surfing. With the general objective of analyzing the narratives of women practicing surfing, in order to discuss the factors that permeate their sports practice. It was necessary to debate about gender conceptions in the perspective of the sexual division of social functions and modes of incorporation of femininities and masculinities, as well as the concept of symbolic violence. This study constitutes a qualitative research, having as a method for data collection, the narrative interview. From the interviewees' speeches, it was possible to perceive the factors that permeate the insertion of women in the surfing modality and characteristic modes of symbolic violence. Finally, contributions that physical education can bring to the social provisions of insertion into sports practice.