WOMEN AND FOOTBALL IN BRAZIL: DISCONTINUITIES, RESISTANCE, AND RESILIENCEThis text introduces the thematic dossier analyzing the presence of women in football. To this end, it briefly contextualizes that sport in the Brazilian context, emphasizing the role of women, who developed strategies to experience football in different times and spaces. It also evidences that the practice is deeply crossed by gender issues, which can be identified in the other texts that are part of the dossier and that indelibly reveal that this crossing is transnational.
Keywords:
Women; Football; History