Sex Testing : Gender Policing in Women's Sports Paperback / softback
by Lindsay Pieper
Part of the Sport and Society series
Paperback / softback
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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 idea of womanhood.
Ranging from Cold War tensions to gender anxiety to controversies around doping, Lindsay Parks Pieper explores sex testing in sport from the 1930s to the early 2000s.
Pieper examines how the IOC in particular insisted on a misguided binary notion of gender that privileged Western norms.
Testing evolved into a tool to identify--and eliminate--athletes the IOC deemed too strong, too fast, or too successful.
Pieper shows how this system punished gifted women while hindering the development of women's athletics for decades.
She also reveals how the flawed notions behind testing--ideas often sexist, racist, or ridiculous--degraded the very idea of female athleticism.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages, 20 black and white photographs, 3 charts, 2 tables
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:20/04/2016
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- ISBN:9780252081682
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages, 20 black and white photographs, 3 charts, 2 tables
- Publisher:University of Illinois Press
- Publication Date:20/04/2016
- Category:
- ISBN:9780252081682
