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Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport

- A History of the Present
Af: Sonja Erikainen Engelsk Paperback

Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport

- A History of the Present
Af: Sonja Erikainen Engelsk Paperback
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This book critically explores the history of gender verification in international sport, to show how culture, politics, and science come together to produce "femaleness" and, consequently, the female body as we know it.





Tracing gender verification policies and practices in sport since the 1930s till the present, the book shows how and why medical "sex tests" have been used to "verify" women athletes’ femaleness, in ways that both reflect and have shaped broader social and scientific ideas about femaleness in the process. Exploring how geopolitics, gender, class and race relations intertwined with scientific ideas about femaleness and womanhood to shape gender verification, the book shows how sports competitions became a battleground where new and old ideas about sex difference collided. By mapping the social, historical, and material instability of sex and gender, it shows why so much investment has been placed in distinguishing femaleness from maleness in sport and beyond.





The book will be of interest to researchers, later-year undergraduate and graduate students in a broad range of areas including gender studies, sports studies, social and historical studies of science and medicine. It will also be relevant to sports policy as it historically and conceptually contextualises gender verification policies.

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This book critically explores the history of gender verification in international sport, to show how culture, politics, and science come together to produce "femaleness" and, consequently, the female body as we know it.





Tracing gender verification policies and practices in sport since the 1930s till the present, the book shows how and why medical "sex tests" have been used to "verify" women athletes’ femaleness, in ways that both reflect and have shaped broader social and scientific ideas about femaleness in the process. Exploring how geopolitics, gender, class and race relations intertwined with scientific ideas about femaleness and womanhood to shape gender verification, the book shows how sports competitions became a battleground where new and old ideas about sex difference collided. By mapping the social, historical, and material instability of sex and gender, it shows why so much investment has been placed in distinguishing femaleness from maleness in sport and beyond.





The book will be of interest to researchers, later-year undergraduate and graduate students in a broad range of areas including gender studies, sports studies, social and historical studies of science and medicine. It will also be relevant to sports policy as it historically and conceptually contextualises gender verification policies.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 200
ISBN-13: 9781032085197
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1032085193
Udg. Dato: 30 jun 2021
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 234mm
Højde: 153mm
Forlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato: 30 jun 2021
Forfatter(e): Sonja Erikainen
Forfatter(e) Sonja Erikainen


Kategori Kønsstudier og kønsgrupper


ISBN-13 9781032085197


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 200


Udgave


Længde 19mm


Bredde 234mm


Højde 153mm


Udg. Dato 30 jun 2021


Oplagsdato 30 jun 2021


Forlag Taylor & Francis Ltd