AS ATIVIDADES CORPORAIS E ESPORTIVAS E A VISIBILIDADE DAS MULHERES NA SOCIEDADE BRASILEIRA DO INÍCIO DESTE SÉCULO

This text is about the history of Physical Education and sports. More specifically, it refers to the corporal and sportive practices, as well as to the visibility of the feminine body in the public space at the beginning of this century. It discloses some political, economical and cultural modifications in the Brazilian society at that period, which had the consequence of making permissible the exhibition of the feminine body, while, at the same time, promoting strategies for its hiding. Under an historical research, this text intent to show the first initiative of women to participate in the practice of sports and how this practice began gradually to grow and change.Este texto diz sobre a história da Educação Física e dos esportes.Mais particularmente, sobre as práticas corporais e esportivas e a visibilidade do corpo Feminino no espaço público do início deste século; algumas modificações políticas, econômicas e culturais éa sociedade brasileira deste tempo, cujas conseqüências, ao mesmo tempo que possibilitam a exibição do corpo feminino promovem, também, estratégias para seu ocultamente Através de uma abordagem histórica, o texto busca mostrar a primeira iniciativa de participação das mulheres na prática de atividades esportivas e como, gradativamente, essa prática foi-se ampliando e modificando. This text is about the history of Physical Education and sports. More specifically, it refers to the corporal and sportive practices, as well as to the visibility of the feminine body in the public space at the beginning of this century. It discloses some political, economical and cultural modifications in the Brazilian society at that period, which had the consequence of making permissible the exhibition of the feminine body, while, at the same time, promoting strategies for its hiding. Under an historical research, this text intent to show the first initiative of women to participate in the practice of sports and how this practice began gradually to grow and chang