Sex Testing : Gender Policing in Women's Sports /

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"To assess the long-lasting significance of sex testing in sport, this book explores its history, from the 1930s to the early 2000s, with particular emphasis on the International Olympic Committee's mandated compulsory sex checks on all female competitors. In 1968 the Medical Commission im...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Pieper, Lindsay Parks, 1985- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
IOC Medical Commission.
Women athletes > Physiology.
Sports > Sex differences.
Sex discrimination in sports.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Olympics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gender Studies.
sex role.
Differences entre sexes.
Identite sexuelle.
Sports > Differences entre sexes.
Discrimination sexuelle dans les sports.
Sportives > Physiologie.
Sexism
Sex Characteristics
Racism
Gender Identity
Athletic Performance
Athletes
ATHLETES.
Sex differences.
Gender identity.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "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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