Women’s sport in Portugal during the New State regime
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6144869 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Claudia Pinheiro (0000-0001-8314-5528, Instituto Superior da Maia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 21-30 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal for Sport and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1613-8171 • E-ISSN: 2380-5919 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/16138171.2010.11687842 |
| OpenAlex | W2183229821 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
The period of Portuguese history known as the New State (1930-1974) was marked by a strong ideology that had a significant impact upon gender relations and on women’s status and participation in sport. During this period a variety of arguments that grounded in aesthetics, morals, health and women’s biology were put forward to encourage women’s involvement in sport. However, these same arguments were also used to control the kind of sports in which women could be involved, as well as the intensity of their sports practice. Women were encouraged to take part in sports, but only in those considered by the regime and its supporters as female-appropriate, that is, sports that would not constitute a threat to traditional ideas about femininity and masculinity. Simultaneously, women were discouraged by members of the regime, and by doctors, teachers and intellectuals who supported the regime’s ideology, from taking part in competitions and intensive sports practice. The present study seeks to analyse from a figurational perspective (and particularly through the established-outsider theory of Norbert Elias), women’s participation in sport during the New State regime
Aesthetics · Athletes · Femininity · Ideology · Masculinity · Period (music · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Portuguese · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · Variety (cybernetics · Gender Studies · Law · Sociology and Norbert Elias · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |