Sex Testing by Lindsay Pieper
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.Ranging from Cold War tensions to gender anxiety to controversies around doping, Lindsay Parks Pieper explores sex testing in sport from the 1930s to the early 2000s. 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.
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The Revolt of the Black Athlete
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Rocky Marciano
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Saying It's So
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Baseball
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Sweet William
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The Sport Marriage
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Sandow the Magnificent
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Surf and Rescue
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Benching Jim Crow
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Cold War Games
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The End of Amateurism in American Track and Field
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Extra Innings
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Dyed in Crimson
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The Gridiron Gospel
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Sol Butler
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Baseball and Cricket
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Muhammad Ali, the People's Champ
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Bleacher Seats and Luxury Suites
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People of Prowess
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The Gold in the Rings
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Fighting
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Television and National Sport
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Heroes or Zeros? the Media's Perceptions of Paralympic Sport
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Team Chemistry
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A View from the Bench
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The End of Baseball As We Knew It
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Beyond the Field
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Sports in the Western World
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Golf in America
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Pigskin Nation
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The Creation of American Team Sports
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Paralympic Legacies
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Golf and the American Country Club
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016
— A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016
— A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2016
Lindsay Parks Pieper is an assistant professor of sport management at Lynchburg College.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780252081682 |
| ISBN 10 | 0252081684 |
| Title | Sex Testing |
| Author | Lindsay Pieper |
| Series | Sport And Society |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press |
| Year published | 2016-04-20 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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