Futbolera

Rezensionen / Stimmen

"Through their research, [Elsey and Nadel] navigate the challenge of reconstructing a largely forgotten, underground history...an important contribution not just to sports history, but to Latin American history as a whole." * Americas Quarterly * "Futbolera offers a compendium of individual, institutional, and state efforts designed to support or to undermine women's soccer in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Central America, and Mexico. After reading Elsey and Nadel's book, it is impossible to plead ignorance to the fact that women have been playing soccer across Latin America for well over a century and that, to play their sport, these athletes have had to battle powers that wanted to keep them out of the game." * Public Books * "This well-written and meticulously researched history helps us understand the past, moving the female body out of the silence enforced upon it. History may have attempted to write women out of the story of sports in Latin America, but Futbolera puts the ball back in women's possession." * All Heels on Deck * "While sports has often been sidelined in histories of gender, class, nationalism, and the so-called Social Question in the region, Elsey and Nadel show how women's involvement in sports animated eugenic debates over healthy citizens, nationalism, and proper motherhood in government, the Church, and the press." * New Books Network: Latin American Studies * "This book is a pure delight to read and provides tremendous new information on the struggles that the women's game has faced over the years throughout Central and South America...one of the best books ever written on international women's football." * Tribal Football * "[Futbolera] provides a critical contribution to the growing literature on the international nature of women's sports...A must read for anyone interested in soccer history." * CHOICE *