Abstract
This paper aims to present and to discuss some historical aspects of women’s soccer in Brazil. It was developed on Foucault’s principals of research, especially his genealogical phase. There were two main terms that were used to inform this investigation: provenance (Herkunft) and emergency (Entestehung); according to Foucault’s ideas, based on his study of Nietzsche’s work, both terms show the intent of the genealogical research better than the word origin (Ursprung). So the genealogy is, in the first place, a kind of research that pursuits the provenance and the emergency of the events instead of their origin. These assumptions helped in the analysis and the comprehension of the current situation of women’s soccer in Brazil through a historical look until the forties, in the 20th century, when the notion of “feminine nature” erupted in the legal text of the first Brazilian sports legislation claiming the supposed incompatibility of women to the soccer practice. This notion was understood, not as the origin of the feminine exclusion of soccer, but as a construction from different knowledge fields and political interests that involve several aspects related to its provenance and its emergency in the Brazilian society. It is important to mention that this kind of idea still remains and it interferes in the life of many Brazilian girls and women whose enjoy playing soccer or decide to seek it as a career, showing that history is not a line of progressive development.
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