Brenda Elsey
Biographic Data
| ID | 505612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brenda Elsey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brenda |
| FAMILY NAME | Elsey |
| SIGNATURE | ELSEY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hofstra University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Devil in the Details
The unethical financial practices of global football leaders have become notorious and normalized over the past 50 years, but they are only part of the systemic rot that exists in the foundations—the clubs, leagues, and federations of each FIFA member nation. South American football leaders played an out-sized role in developing these systems, with tragic consequences for women and children. At the same time, they have attempted to improve their …
Paulo Drinot. The Sexual Question
The modern state’s approach to the world’s “oldest profession” has inspired historical work across geographies and time periods. Paulo Drinot’s excellent monograph on the history of prostitution in Peru is an important contribution to that scholarship. Because of Drinot’s serious engagement with this scholarship, he is able to place Peruvian history within the global context while signaling the local particularities of his case. This is all the m…
Futbolera
Making fútbol straight again
This essay examines the media frenzy around the ‘love-life’ of Chilean football star Alexís Sánchez, particularly the 2017 announcement of his romantic involvement with actress Mayte Rodríguez. It discusses the media coverage as a poignant example of misogyny and homophobia in Chilean football culture, as well as one of the forces that perpetuates that culture. During the years of the 2018 World Cup qualifying process, Chile accrued the most seve…
Fútbol Feminista
Sport in Latin America
Sport forms existed in Latin American in the pre-Columbian period. European empires adopted and modified indigenous cultural activities while introducing new sports. Sport development was not homogenous as local conditions and specific colonial and commercial interests shaped sport’s growth. Despite these disparate patterns of development, it is generally true that the rise in nationalism facilitated the diffusion of sport in Latin America, as lo…
Cultural Ambassadorship and the Pan-American Games of the 1950s
This paper examines the history of the early Pan-American Games, held in Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Chicago. The history of the Pan-American Games demonstrates the decline of goodwill between the US and Latin American sports organizations, audiences, and journalists during the Cold War. Despite the diplomatic failures of the Pan-American Games from a US-centred perspective, they are vital to understand the history of women's participation in …
Teaching Forum on Sport and Politics
University courses on sport and society have increased exponentially over the past decade, motored by student interest and the acceptance of cultural studies in the academy. This online forum, organized and coordinated by Peter Alegi, took place in the summer of 2015. Four historians and a political scientist discussed how their historical research on sport influences their teaching and helps students better understand the relationships between s…
Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love
In the Chilean autumn of 1974, a dozen women took part in a workshop to make handicrafts. The women shared a search for missing relatives who had been detained and “disappeared” by the authoritarian regime of Augusto Pinochet. Under the auspices of the Catholic Church these women created arpilleras, or appliquéd burlap tapestries. Marjorie Agosín’s book tells the story of this artwork and its development into an internationally recognized denunci…
Cultural Ambassadorship and the Pan-American Games of the 1950s
This paper examines the history of the early Pan-American Games, held in Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Chicago. The history of the Pan-American Games demonstrates the decline of goodwill between the US and Latin American sports organizations, audiences, and journalists during the Cold War. Despite the diplomatic failures of the Pan-American Games from a US-centred perspective, they are vital to understand the history of women's participation in …
Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love
In the Chilean autumn of 1974, a dozen women took part in a workshop to make handicrafts. The women shared a search for missing relatives who had been detained and “disappeared” by the authoritarian regime of Augusto Pinochet. Under the auspices of the Catholic Church these women created arpilleras, or appliquéd burlap tapestries. Marjorie Agosín’s book tells the story of this artwork and its development into an internationally recognized denunci…
Cultural Ambassadorship and the Pan-American Games of the 1950s
This paper examines the history of the early Pan-American Games, held in Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Chicago. The history of the Pan-American Games demonstrates the decline of goodwill between the US and Latin American sports organizations, audiences, and journalists during the Cold War. Despite the diplomatic failures of the Pan-American Games from a US-centred perspective, they are vital to understand the history of women's participation in …
Teaching Forum on Sport and Politics
University courses on sport and society have increased exponentially over the past decade, motored by student interest and the acceptance of cultural studies in the academy. This online forum, organized and coordinated by Peter Alegi, took place in the summer of 2015. Four historians and a political scientist discussed how their historical research on sport influences their teaching and helps students better understand the relationships between s…
Sport in Latin America
Sport forms existed in Latin American in the pre-Columbian period. European empires adopted and modified indigenous cultural activities while introducing new sports. Sport development was not homogenous as local conditions and specific colonial and commercial interests shaped sport’s growth. Despite these disparate patterns of development, it is generally true that the rise in nationalism facilitated the diffusion of sport in Latin America, as lo…
Making fútbol straight again
This essay examines the media frenzy around the ‘love-life’ of Chilean football star Alexís Sánchez, particularly the 2017 announcement of his romantic involvement with actress Mayte Rodríguez. It discusses the media coverage as a poignant example of misogyny and homophobia in Chilean football culture, as well as one of the forces that perpetuates that culture. During the years of the 2018 World Cup qualifying process, Chile accrued the most seve…
Fútbol Feminista
Futbolera
Paulo Drinot. The Sexual Question
The modern state’s approach to the world’s “oldest profession” has inspired historical work across geographies and time periods. Paulo Drinot’s excellent monograph on the history of prostitution in Peru is an important contribution to that scholarship. Because of Drinot’s serious engagement with this scholarship, he is able to place Peruvian history within the global context while signaling the local particularities of his case. This is all the m…
The Devil in the Details
The unethical financial practices of global football leaders have become notorious and normalized over the past 50 years, but they are only part of the systemic rot that exists in the foundations—the clubs, leagues, and federations of each FIFA member nation. South American football leaders played an out-sized role in developing these systems, with tragic consequences for women and children. At the same time, they have attempted to improve their …
Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (3 works) · Sports and Physical Education Studies (3 works) · Art (2 works)