Download e-book for kindle: Gender Testing in Sport: Ethics, cases and controversies by Sandy Montanola,Aurélie Olivesi

By Sandy Montanola,Aurélie Olivesi

ISBN-10: 113830865X

ISBN-13: 9781138308657

ISBN-10: 1138852910

ISBN-13: 9781138852914

After the younger South African athlete Caster Semenya received the 800m identify on the 2009 global Championships she used to be obliged to suffer gender trying out and was once quickly withdrawn from foreign festival. the way in which that this controversy spread out represents a wealthy and multi-layered instance of the development of gender in wider society and the interrelationships among activity, tradition and the media. this can be the 1st publication to discover the case intensive, from socio-cultural, moral and criminal perspectives.


Analysing what got here to be known as "the Caster Semenya Case" in a complete and multi-disciplinary model, and masking matters from media discourses and the rhetoric and rules of the sport’s governing our bodies to the response of the athlete herself, the e-book explores the ethics of ways gender norms in game, and in society extra in general, are built via visual appeal, behaviour and carrying functionality. This 2009 controversy might be taken as a hallmark of the tensions of the time, and served as a hyperlink among clinical sciences, society and gender.


Including discussions of key techniques reminiscent of 'intersex', 'body norms', and 'fairness', Gender checking out in recreation is attention-grabbing and significant studying for anyone with an curiosity in recreation experiences, gender stories or biomedical ethics.

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