A trajetória da mulher no paradesporto brasileiro

Abstract

Throughout history, the inclusion of women in sports has taken place slowly, gradually and “sometimes traumatic”, marked by struggles and prejudices, which proved to be even more serious with regard to disabled sports woman (SIMÕES, p. 17, 2004; CITY, 2004; OLIVEIRA, 2008). Therefore, the objective of this research was to analyze the trajectory of Brazilian women with disabilities in competitive sports, taking as a guideline the sports history of these women and the way they perceive themselves seen by society, in order to understand their worldview and, thus, we can give visibility to its importance in the sports scene. Methodologically, the research was developed using the Life Story, based on the ideas of Bertaux (2005) and the French Discourse Analysis, affiliated with the thoughts of Pêcheux (2015) and Orlandi (2015; 2017), with corpus of analysis covering images, photographs, graphs, charts, organization charts and semi-structured interviews applied to 14 brazilian female parathletes with physical or visual disabilities, practitioners of the Paralympic modalities of Athletics, Weightlifting and Swimming or of the unofficial modality of Wheelchair Sports Dance and with participation, in at least, one international championship in its sport in the last tem years. As a result of the research, we identified that negative feelings outweighed the positive ones in the subjects' speeches, since they still did not realize their current subject-position and did not even realize their social place. Despite this, they sought strength to fight for their rights and desires, became protagonists of their stories, transformed the space around them and transformed themselves. These women meant themselves beyond the discourse of lack and devaluation, legitimizing themselves before society, even in the face of the lack of an inclusive national sports policy, capable of encouraging, promoting and strengthening women in sport, as well as providing the desired recognition and visibility.