“We did feminism in that epoch”: feminist interventions on argentinean soccer memories (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Authors

Abstract

This paper analyzes reconstruction labor on soccer memories, made up by a militancy collective of feminist soccer, which displays a souvenir production on the World Cup of 1971 held in México. It is sustained that this collective labor is a process of devolving memories that, through feminist interventions, organizes a different story of national soccer and, at the same time, criticizes its official narrative, in which archives become spaces of dis-encountering between “feminine” and “feminist” that express identity strains used and promoted by feminist interpretations on the past.

Keywords:

Feminist soccer, militancies, feminine soccer, feminisms, social memory

Author Biography

María Mónica Sosa Vásquez, Universidad de Buenos Aires; Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO)

Maestra en Antropología Social por la Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), sede
Argentina, y licenciada en Antropología Social por la Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán (UADY) en México. Colabora en el Observatorio Electoral de América Latina y el Caribe (OBLAT) de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) y el Laboratorio de Antropología Aplicada de la FLACSO. Sus intereses versan sobre la antropología política, los estudios feministas y los estudios de memorias. Ha publicado en revistas como Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences, Debate Feminista, Estudos Feministas, Encartes y Revista Mexicana de Sociología.