Tag: Lívia Gonçalves Magalhães
Valuable overview of Brazilian women’s football – history and current situation
The Beautiful Game Reimagined: Women’s Soccer in Brazil, edited by Lívia Gonçalves Magalhães, Tiago J. Fernandes Maranhão & Bernardo Buarque De Hollanda (Common Ground) challenges long-held notions of the country’s enduring football heritage by highlighting the influential and rapidly evolving sphere of women’s soccer. Jonny Hjelm finds a few flaws in the editorial work, which are however overshadowed by the strengths: the breadth of the subject, the intersectional perspective and some really good chapters coalesce to create valuable knowledge of women’s football in one of the major football nations.
