Identidades in English No 4, December 2014 | Page 40

Women and the 2014 World
Cup in Brazil (II)
Rosivalda dos Santos Barreto
Professor. Bahía State Public School System
Bahía, Brazil
This article exposes situations involving women
and the lack of attention by official entities regarding tourism and the sexual exploitation of minors, adolescents, and prostitutes; effectively,
with anything having to do with women.
The image of black Brazilian women was exported through Gilberto Freyre’s Casa Grande y
Senzal, and Osvaldo Sargentelli’s samba school,
as an expression of national identity. With time,
the idea of Brazil expanded: the country of samba,
beer, women, and soccer was created, and this is
corroborated by sexual tourism and the sexual exploitation of minors. In some way, all of this justifies the sale of Adidas T-shirts with sex symbols
allusive of Brazil on them.
Bill No. 4211 precisely tried to avoid this sexual
exploitation, but it was not approved, leaving a
huge hole of vulnerability, in which black women
are the most victimized.
On the other hand, the Brazilian v