Gender Testing in Sport: Ethics, Cases and Controversies

ISBN-13: 9781138308657 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 196 str.

Sandy Montanola; Aurelie Olivesi

Opis

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Caster Semenya won the 800m title at the 2009 World Championships she was obliged to undergo gender testing and was withdrawn, for a time, from international competition. Her case became a cause célèbre and represents a rich, 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. Including discussion of key concepts such as ‘intersexuality’ and ‘fairness’, it is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport studies, gender studies or biomedical ethics.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Sandy Montañola is Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies at the University of Rennes 1 (Centre for Research on Political Action in Europe) and supervisor of a journalism degree (IUT, Lannion, France). She has a special interest in the connection between medicine, gender and media coverage from social representation to the ir impact in the public arena. She currently works on two projects about the media coverage of scientists' discourse and bodily norms (especially in intersex and childbirth), and the place of journalists in the representation of diversity Aurélie Olivesi is a Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Her research fields are the analysis of media discourse (in printed press and internet forums) and the study of how gender in the political field is represented in the media. She has published a monograph about the 2007 French presidential election: Implicitement Sexiste? Genre, politique et discours journalistique. She has a special interest in the representation of gender perturbation in the media, and in the lay discourse about gender issues published in the media