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Testing for Athlete Citizenship - Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport (Hardcover)
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Testing for Athlete Citizenship - Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Issues in Sport and Society
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Incidents of doping in sports are common in news headlines, despite
regulatory efforts. How did doping become a crisis? What does a
doping violation actually entail? Who gets punished for breaking
the rules of fair play? In Testing for Athlete Citizenship, Kathryn
E. Henne, a former competitive athlete and an expert in the law and
science of anti-doping regulations, examines the development of
rules aimed at controlling performance enhancement in international
sports. As international and celebrated figures, athletes are
powerful symbols, yet few spectators realize that a global
regulatory network is in place in an attempt to ensure ideals of
fair play. The athletes caught and punished for doping are not
always the ones using performance-enhancing drugs to cheat. In the
case of female athletes, violations of fair play can stem from
their inherent biological traits. Combining historical and
ethnographic approaches, Testing for Athlete Citizenship offers a
compelling account of the origins and expansion of anti-doping
regulation and gender-verification rules. Drawing on research
conducted in Australasia, Europe, and North America, Henne provides
a detailed account of how race, gender, class, and postcolonial
formations of power shape these ideas and regulatory practices.
Testing for Athlete Citizenship makes a convincing case to rethink
the power of regulation in sports and how it separates athletes as
a distinct class of citizens subject to a unique set of rules
because of their physical attributes and abilities.
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