Sex testing : gender policing in women's sports /

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"In 1968, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) implemented sex testing for female athletes at that year's Games. When it became clear that testing regimes failed to delineate a sex divide, the IOC began to test for gender --a shift that allowed the organization to control the very ide...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Pieper, Lindsay Parks, 1985- (Author)
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]
Series:Sport and society.
Subjects:
IOC Medical Commission.
Women athletes > Physiology.
Sex discrimination in sports.
Sports > Sex differences.
Gender identity.
Sex differences.
ATHLETES.
Athletes
Athletic Performance
Gender Identity
Racism
Sex Characteristics
Sexism
Sportives > Physiologie.
Discrimination sexuelle dans les sports.
Sports > Différences entre sexes.
Identité sexuelle.
Différences entre sexes.
sex role.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Olympics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "A careful inquiry to establish her sex beyond a doubt": sex/gender anxieties in track and field
  • "Because they have muscles, big ones": Cold War gender norms and international sport, 1952-1967
  • Is the athlete "right" or "wrong"? The IOC's chromosomal construction of womanhood, 1968-1972
  • "East Germany's mighty sports machine": Steroids, nationalism, and femininity testing
  • US vs. USSR: Gender testing, doping checks, and Olympic boycotts
  • "One of the most horrid misuses of a scientific method": The development of a protest
  • "Gender testing per se is no longer necessary": The IAAF's and the IOC's continued control
  • Epilogue: The reintroduction of gender verification.

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