Can women practice fighting? A study on the social representations of the College female fighters

Authors

  • Marco Antônio de Carvalho Ferretti USP
  • Jorge Dorfman Knijnik Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-8918.2925

Keywords:

Women. Combat sport. Fights

Abstract

Historically in Sports, Women have been chased after by defamations, prohibitions and prejudices of all sorts. This even gets worse when they get involved with some kinds of fight modalities considered “masculine”. This study aims at researching female fighters’ representations. Seven college fighters were interviewed. They started this physical activity in their early childhood at school or encouraged by their parents, quit it during adolescence and have retaken it as a grownup. They point out that prejudice against them is strong and complain about the total indifference of Media when it comes to female fightings. It was noticed that most of them don’t consider themselves as fighters which is a way of dealing with the prejudice against them.

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Author Biographies

Marco Antônio de Carvalho Ferretti, USP

Bacharel em Esporte pela Universidade de São Paulo. E-mail: macferretti81@yahoo.com.br

Jorge Dorfman Knijnik, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie

Licenciado e Mestre em Educação Física. Doutor em Psicologia. Docente da Escola de Educação Física e Esporte da Universidade de São Paulo e do curso de Educação Física da Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie. E-mail: jk@usp.br

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Published

2007-12-29

How to Cite

FERRETTI, M. A. de C.; KNIJNIK, J. D. Can women practice fighting? A study on the social representations of the College female fighters. Movimento, [S. l.], v. 13, n. 1, p. 57–80, 2007. DOI: 10.22456/1982-8918.2925. Disponível em: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/Movimento/article/view/2925. Acesso em: 25 jun. 2025.

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2007)

Section

Original Articles

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