WOMEN IN SOCCER

A MEDIA ANALYSIS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF CULTURAL STUDIES

Abstract

This article aims to identify the representations of the identities of women in professional soccer, based on comments on a sport website. We attempt to articulate media discourses with power relations and, through cultural analysis, identify gender limitations in the area of ​​Physical Education. The main points analyzed indicate to the various offenses suffered by women, among them the imperatives of femininity, fragility, motherhood and attacks in relation to sexual orientation. It is concluded that these spaces collaborate in the construction of what it means to be a woman within the culture and seek to normalize a desired ideal, which confronts the achievement of visibility and acceptance of women who play football.