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Gender verification and the making of the female body in sport : a history of the present
- Title
- Gender verification and the making of the female body in sport : a history of the present / Sonja Erikainen.
- Author
- Erikainen, Sonja
- Publication
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 186 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Routledge advances in critical diversities
- Uniform Title
- Routledge advances in critical diversities.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-5682
- ISBN
- 9780367313012
- 0367313014
- LCCN
- 2019043298
- OCLC
- 1120141173
- Author
- Erikainen, Sonja, author.
- Title
- Gender verification and the making of the female body in sport : a history of the present / Sonja Erikainen.
- Publisher
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge advances in critical diversitiesRoutledge advances in critical diversities.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Erikainen, Sonja, Gender verification and the making of the female body in sport. Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. 9780429316159 (DLC) 2019043299
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-5682