Gender defenders of the sport binary mediating discourses of difference against intersex and transgender female athletes / Travis R. Bell, Anne C. Osborne.
| Author/creator | Bell, Travis R. |
| Other author | Osborne, Anne C. (Anne Cunningham |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Peter Lang, [2025] |
| Description | vi, 275 pages 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Communication, sport, and society, 2576-7232 ; vol. 13 |
| Contents | Introduction: Sex as fundamental to women's sport -- Discourse of defense : sport policy as a foundation of sex-segregation -- Discourse of diagnosis : medicalizing intersex and transgender -- Discourse of difference : American newspaper coverage from 1900-1959 -- Discourse of dissuasion : sport's institutionalization of testing femininity, 1960-1969 -- Discourse of defiance : athletes finally have a voice, 1970-1999 -- Discourse of division : sex segregation under the cloak of gender inclusion, 2000-2016 -- Discourse of cis-duty : a panicked return to sex exclusion, 2017-2023 -- Conclusion: Discourse of destruction : emphasized femininity to discipline gender for intersex and transgender athletes. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024055713 |
| ISBN | 9781433147708 hardback |
| ISBN | 9781433147715 paperback |
| ISBN | ebook |
| ISBN | epub |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |