Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport

Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 289
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ISBN-10 : 9781000766035
ISBN-13 : 1000766039
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Book Synopsis Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport by : Sonja Erikainen

Download or read book Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport written by Sonja Erikainen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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