Gender testing in sport : ethics, cases and controversies
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Gender testing in sport : ethics, cases and controversies
(Ethics and sport)
Routledge, 2016
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
After the young South African athlete Caster Semenya won the 800m title at the 2009 World Championships she was obliged to undergo gender testing and was temporarily withdrawn from international competition. The way that this controversy unfolded represents a rich and multi-layered example of the construction of gender in wider society and the interrelationships between sport, culture and the media. This is the first book to explore the case in depth, from socio-cultural, ethical and legal perspectives.
Analysing what came to be called "the Caster Semenya Case" in a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary fashion, and covering issues from media discourses and the rhetoric and regulations of the sport's governing bodies to the reaction of the athlete herself, the book explores the ethics of how gender norms in sport, and in society more generally, are constructed through appearance, behaviour and sporting performance. This 2009 controversy can be taken as an indicator of the tensions of the time, and served as a link between medical sciences, society and gender.
Including discussions of key concepts such as 'intersex', 'body norms', and 'fairness', Gender Testing in Sport is fascinating and important reading for anybody with an interest in sport studies, gender studies or biomedical ethics.
Table of Contents
1. From Apartheid to Segregation in Sports: the transgressive body of Caster Mokgadi Semenya 2. Gender Verifications vs. Anti-Doping Policies: sexed controls 3. Unfair Advantage and the Myth of the Level Playing Field in IAAF and IOC Policies on Hyperandrogenism: when is it fair to be a woman? 4. Categorizing and Attributing the Sex of Individuals: history of the science, law and ethics 5. Caster Semenya and the Intersex Hypothesis: on gender as the visual evidence of sex 6. From the Implicit to Aporia: the specificities of the Caster Semenya case as a "discursive moment" 7. From Sports to Science, Rhetorical and Power Issues in the Media Coverage of Caster Semenya 8. "Caster Semenya - the ncients would have called her god." The International Re-Imagining and Remaking of Sex and the Art of Silence 9. Gender, Silence, and a Queer New World: Caster Semenya and unfixed ambiguity 10. Afterword
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