“You Have to Play Like a Man, But Still be a Woman”: Young Female Colombians Negotiating Gender Through Participation in a Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) Organization

Colombian girls are not encouraged from playing sport due to gendered roles that idealize girls as “delicate” and reserve sport as an activity for boys. Since the early and mid-2000s girls living in two marginalized communities in Colombia have had the unique opportunity to participate in a sport for development and peace organization. Drawing on six months of ethnographic research, this paper explores how these young women are negotiating...