Assembling bodies. Analysis of workshops with athletes about sex-gendered discourses

Abstract

Brujas en las Canchas is a sports-political group, which works in coordination with the Dirección General de Deportes of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, intervenes as a meeting space for athletes in training, inviting them to think and reflect in workshops about the relationship between sport and gender. This paper analyzes a workshop developed in 2017, entitled “Bodies and diversity”, in which it was sought to challenge the dominant senses of young female athletes regarding the body, playing with the concept of gender as a performative act in the identifications' construction. To do this, it is themed about bodies as unfinished matrices, as montages under construction, and in the ways that sex-gendered discourses are produced and (re) produced, reflecting on the meaning of correct narratives of bodies and how the heterosexual universals senses influence the configurations of identifications and body images.