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100	1		_aPieper, Lindsay Parks, _d1985- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSex testing _h[electronic resource] : _bgender policing in women's sports / _cLindsay Parks Pieper.
260			_aUrbana : _bUniversity of Illinois Press, _c2016. _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (1 online resource.)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aSport and society
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aSPORTS & RECREATION / Olympics. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aSports _xSex differences.
650		0	_aSex discrimination in sports.
650		0	_aWomen athletes _xPhysiology.
610	2	0	_aIOC Medical Commission.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aPieper, Lindsay Parks, 1985- author. _tSex testing _dUrbana : University of Illinois Press, 2016 _z9780252040221 _w(DLC) 2015042892
710	2		_aProject Muse.
830		0	_aUPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/45686/
945			_aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 Global Cultural Studies
945			_aProject MUSE - UPCC 2016 Complete
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