Relações entre esportes, práticas corporais e mulheres nos suplementos o “globo esportivo” e “jornal das moças” (1938 a 1952)

Abstract

The growing and participation of women in the sports and in bodily practices in the Brazilian historical scenario, as per the representation of the newspapers, it brings to light the trajectory, barriers and ambiguities of this process. To comply to the issues that guide the present research, the general objective is to analyze how important media outlets of the Rio de Janeiro newspapers represented female participation in sports-bodily practices from 1938 to 1952. Main point of objectives: to further a historical rescue of female participation in sports-bodily practices, identifying periods through reports of the time; and understand a historical process of female participation in Brazilian sports, pointing out the social issues of this period. In this way, through newspapers that performed an essential role in the current communication of the proposed period, it is possible to identify the sociocultural issues that it covers the participation of women in bodily practices and Brazilian sport, mainly in the city of Rio de Janeiro. The time frame is justified by the period in which the newspaper O Globo Esportivo remained in circulation throughout Brazil, and in 1938, it was the first edition on the Newspaper O Globo, and the last circulation in 1952. In the same period, Jornal das Moças, a women's magazine for mainly women, it was also the subject of analysis to verify the presence of reports showing women into sports/bodily practices.