Brazilian Women in Paralympic Sports: Uncovering Historical Milestones in the Summer Paralympic Games.

IF 1.7 3区医学 Q2 REHABILITATION

Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Print Date: 2024-10-01 DOI:10.1123/apaq.2023-0139

Luiz Gustavo T Fabricio Dos Santos, Isabella Dos Santos Alves, Náthali Fernanda Feliciano, Africa Alejandra Ortuño Torres, Luis Felipe Castelli Correia de Campos, Maria Luiza Tanure Alves

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The journey of Brazilian female Paralympians transcends mere statistical increases in women's participation. Behind the modest athlete growth lies the reality of women who are doubly marginalized by the intersection of gender and disability in an arena tailored for able-bodied men. Our study aimed to catalyze critical discourses surrounding the historical trajectory of Paralympic women's sports. Through a comprehensive documentary analysis based on the Brazilian Paralympic Committee's official documents from 1976 to 2021, we sought to shed light on this complex scenario. Numerically, Brazil's representation comprised 229 women who, predominantly, had physical impairments and engaged in individual sports. In addition to a sporting legacy deeply entrenched in physical rehabilitation with limited opportunities for team-based sports, we observed negative influences stemming from ableist and sexist narratives. A thorough investigation into Paralympic milestones revealed a multitude of social barriers and highlighted the significant impact of societal changes in reshaping athletic opportunities and challenging traditional stereotypes.

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残奥运动中的巴西女性：揭开夏季残奥会的历史里程碑。

巴西残奥会女运动员的历程不仅仅是统计数字上女性参与人数的增长。在运动员小幅增长的背后，是在这个专为健全男性量身打造的竞技场上，女性因性别与残疾的交织而被双重边缘化的现实。我们的研究旨在围绕残奥会女子运动的历史轨迹展开批判性讨论。通过对巴西残奥委员会 1976 年至 2021 年的官方文件进行全面的文献分析，我们试图揭示这一复杂的情况。从数字上看，巴西的代表队由 229 名女性组成，她们主要有身体缺陷并从事个人运动。除了体育传统中根深蒂固的身体康复和有限的团队运动机会之外，我们还观察到来自能力主义和性别歧视言论的负面影响。对残奥会里程碑的深入调查揭示了众多社会障碍，并强调了社会变革在重塑运动机会和挑战传统定型观念方面的重大影响。

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Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly 医学-康复医学

CiteScore

3.00

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10.50%

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： APAQ is an international, peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary journal designed to stimulate and communicate scholarly inquiry relating to physical activity that is adapted in order to enable and enhance performance and participation in people with disability. Physical activity implies fine, gross, functional, and interpretive movement including physical education, recreation, exercise, sport, and dance. The focus of adaptation may be the activity or task that is to be performed, environment and facilities, equipment, instructional methodology, and/or rules governing the performance setting. Among the populations considered are persons with motor, intellectual, sensory, and mental or other disabilities across the life span. Disciplines from which scholarship to this aim may originate include, but are not limited to, physical education, teacher preparation, human development, motor behavior and learning, biomechanics, exercise and sport physiology, and exercise and sport psychology. Scientific inquiry may originate from quantitative or qualitative inquiry, as well as from multimethod designs.