Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport
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Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport

A History of the Present

Sonja Erikainen

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Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport

A History of the Present

Sonja Erikainen

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About This Book

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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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2019
ISBN
9781000766035
Edition
1
Topic
Política y relaciones internacionales
Subtopic
Geopolítica

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. List of abbreviations
  10. 1 Introduction: gender verification, sex difference, and the body
  11. 2 Sex instability from the 1920s to the 1950s
  12. 3 Pure and polluted bodies in Cold War sports
  13. 4 Sex screening and diagnosis in the Olympics
  14. 5 Gender fraud and masquerade in the 1970s and 1980s
  15. 6 Gendered suspicions at the turn of the millennia
  16. 7 The testosterone debate – from hyperandrogenic females to biological males
  17. 8 The past, present, and future of gender verification and sex categories in sport
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
Citation styles for Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport

APA 6 Citation

Erikainen, S. (2019). Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport (1st ed.). Taylor and Francis. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/1379467/gender-verification-and-the-making-of-the-female-body-in-sport-a-history-of-the-present-pdf (Original work published 2019)

Chicago Citation

Erikainen, Sonja. (2019) 2019. Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis. https://www.perlego.com/book/1379467/gender-verification-and-the-making-of-the-female-body-in-sport-a-history-of-the-present-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Erikainen, S. (2019) Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport. 1st edn. Taylor and Francis. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/1379467/gender-verification-and-the-making-of-the-female-body-in-sport-a-history-of-the-present-pdf (Accessed: 14 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Erikainen, Sonja. Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport. 1st ed. Taylor and Francis, 2019. Web. 14 Oct. 2022.