Género y deporte: con la sexualidad “al palo”

Abstract

In the present work we will try to analyze and reflect on a case of discrimination in Argentine sport, specifically in the Hockey Association of the Province of Chubut, based on the theoretical contributions and conceptual debates offered by the different approaches and authors of the field of Gender studies, with the intention of understanding and questioning the ways in which bodies are thought and sexual difference in contemporary culture.
If we accept that bodies are always traversed by social, cultural and historically configured frames; That there is nothing natural in a gesture, a look, a posture, a way of moving, of feeling, of expressing oneself; And that bodies have always been and are objects and targets of power, we can affirm then that they can not be thought, felt or valued outside the discourses that shape them. However, in spite of the number of respected authors who have written about it, an approach that insists on the natural, biological, given and immovable character of the body and therefore of sex and gender remains deeply rooted in contemporary societies and cultures.