Gender defenders of the sport binary : mediating discourses of difference against intersex and transgender female athletes /
"Sex and gender are interconnected, conflated, different, and complex. Arguably there is no cultural arena more affected by the complexity of sex/gender than sport, where the presumed need for a male/female binary is personalized, medicalized, and politicized. Gender Defenders of the Sports Bin...
| Main Authors: | , |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, USA :
Peter Lang Publishing Inc.,
[2025]
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| Series: | Communication, sport, and society ;
v. 13. |
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| Summary: | "Sex and gender are interconnected, conflated, different, and complex. Arguably there is no cultural arena more affected by the complexity of sex/gender than sport, where the presumed need for a male/female binary is personalized, medicalized, and politicized. Gender Defenders of the Sports Binary considers how medical, policy, and media discourses shape understanding of nonbinary athletes, and more broadly cultural understandings of gender as chosen and sex as biologically measurable. Tracing discourse across more than 100 years of media coverage, decades of medical debate, and overlapping sport regulatory policies, this book considers how the force of cisgender ideology creates a singular narrative centered on fairness that dominates transgender and intersex women and erases them from elite sport. This book traces the influence of powerful contexts such as language and masculinity in constructing boundaries around who can and cannot fit in women's sport"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 275 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781433147814 (electronic bk.) 1433147815 9781433147821 1433147823 |