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Sex Testing - Gender Policing in Women's Sports (Paperback)
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Sex Testing - Gender Policing in Women's Sports (Paperback)
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Loot Price R581
Discovery Miles 5 810
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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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