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100 1 $aPieper, Lindsay Parks,$d1985-$eauthor.
245 10 $aSex testing :$bgender policing in women's sports /$cLindsay Parks Pieper.
264 1 $aUrbana :$bUniversity of Illinois Press,$c[2016]
300 $ax, 250 pages ;$c24 cm.
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490 1 $aSport and society
520 $a"In 1968, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) implemented sex testing for female athletes at that year's Games. When it became clear that testing regimes failed to delineate a sex divide, the IOC began to test for gender --a shift that allowed the organization to control the very idea of womanhood. Lindsay Parks Pieper explores sex testing in sport from the 1930s to the early 2000s. Focusing on assumptions and goals as well as means, Pieper examines how the IOC in particular insisted on a misguided binary notion of gender that privileged Western norms. Testing evolved into a tool to identify--and eliminate--athletes the IOC deemed too strong, too fast, or too successful. Pieper shows how this system punished gifted women while hindering the development of women's athletics for decades. She also reveals how the flawed notions behind testing--ideas often sexist, racist, or ridiculous--degraded the very idea of female athleticism"--$cProvided by publisher.
520 $a"To assess the long-lasting significance of sex testing in sport, this book explores its history, from the 1930s to the early 2000s, with particular emphasis on the International Olympic Committee's mandated compulsory sex checks on all female competitors. In 1968 the Medical Commission implemented the first test of the modern Olympic Movement. The procedure intended to guarantee the authenticity of Olympic competitors and identify male masqueraders, as well as to scientifically confirm the separation of men and women in athletic competition. Although the Medical Commission never discovered a single male imposter, and the test illustrated the impossibility of determining the exact constitution of woman, the IOC maintained the policy for three decades. With both the impossibility of discovering a clear sex divide and the increased presence of female dopers, the IOC adjusted its semantic framework to encapsulate gender normativity. The conspicuous adjustment from sex to gender underscored the Medical Commission's changing anxieties. Rather than to catch men disguised as women, the test evolved into a measure to preclude female Olympians with biological advantages. In other words, the Medical Commission eventually viewed gender verification as a tool to eliminate competitors it deemed too strong, too fast or too successful for women's competition. Olympic womanhood--dependent on a belief in natural, dichotomous sex/gender difference--required female athletes to conform to conventional notions of white, Western femininity. Through these regulations, the IOC has continuously reaffirmed a binary notion of sex, privileged white gender norms and hampered female athleticism"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
610 20 $aIOC Medical Commission.
610 27 $aIOC Medical Commission.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00677514
650 0 $aWomen athletes$xPhysiology.
650 0 $aSex discrimination in sports.
650 0 $aSports$xSex differences.
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSPORTS & RECREATION / Olympics.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aSex discrimination in sports.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01114442
650 7 $aSports$xSex differences.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01130523
650 7 $aWomen athletes$xPhysiology.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01177188
650 12 $aAthletes.
650 12 $aAthletic Performance.
650 22 $aSex Characteristics.
650 22 $aSexism.
650 22 $aGender Identity.
650 22 $aRacism.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aPieper, Lindsay Parks, 1985- author.$tSex testing$dUrbana : University of Illinois Press, 2016$z9780252098444$w(DLC) 2016004102
830 0 $aSport and society.
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