This work aims to identify how the participation of women in skateboarding influences the way they perceive themselves as women. This research was carried out with a group of young women from the city of Bogotá who practice this sport and who fully identify with the skater community. This work recognizes in first place some of the problems faced by women when accessing this sport and the spaces where it is practiced, this allows us to know the different individual and collective strategies that improve their experience in skateboarding in aspects like recognition and participation. Secondly, it is recognized how this sport let the women skaters conceive different ways of being a woman, but all of these crossed by a notion of empowerment.
publication date
February 19, 2021 7:09 PM
Research
keywords
Access to sports practices
Ethnographic study of the skater community in Bogotá
