Gender Testing in Sport: Ethics, cases and controversies

211 Pages·2016·2.957 MB·English

by  Sandy Montanola, Aurélie Olivesi (eds.)

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Gender Testing in Sport
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a After the young South African athlete Caster Semenya won the 800m title at the
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2009 World Championships she was obliged to undergo gender testing and was
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1 withdrawn, for a time, from international competition. The way that the different
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o Analysing what came to be called “the Caster Semenya Case” in a comprehen-
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and the rhetoric and regulations of the sport’s governing bodies to the reaction
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a of the athlete herself to this harsh experience, the book explores in depth, beyond
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her own circumstances, the ethics of how gender norms in sport, and in society
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f “fairness”, Gender Testing in Sport is fascinating and important reading for any-
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y body with an interest in sport studies, gender studies or biomedical ethics.
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s Sandy Montañola is a Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at
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ve the University of Rennes 1 (Centre for Research on Political Action in Europe)
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n and supervisor of a journalism degree (IUT, Lannion, France). She has a special
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interest in the connection between medicine, gender and media coverage from
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w Aurélie Olivesi is a Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at
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discourse (in printed press and internet forums) and the study of how gender in the
political field is represented in the media. She has published a monograph about
the 2007 French presidential election: Implicitement Sexiste? Genre, politique et
discours journalistique. She has a special interest in the representation of gender
perturbation in the media, and in the lay discourse about gender issues published
in the media.
Ethics and Sport
Series editors
Mike McNamee
University of Wales, Swansea
Jim Parry
University of Leeds
The Ethics and Sport series aims to encourage critical reflection on the prac-
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First published 2016
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Contents
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Acknowledgements ix
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n body of Caster Mokgadi Semenya 13
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AURÉLIE OLIVESI
6 Caster Semenya and the intersex hypothesis: on gender
as the visual evidence of sex 101
FABIEN ROSE
7 From sports to science, rhetorical and power issues in the
media coverage of Caster Semenya 118
SANDY MONTAÑOLA
8 “Caster Semenya – the ancients would have called her god”
the international re-imagining and remaking of sex and the
art of silence 150
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Acknowledgements
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We would first like to thank our fellow contributors for the quality of this
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6 study days in Lyon and while we were editing the manuscript, as we were all
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Sa on Political Action in Europe, Rennes 1) and ELICO (the Research Team in
a, Information and Communication Science, Lyon) for their support. We are
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these meetings. Thanks to all who agreed to answer our interview requests.
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b Our gratitude goes to William Bailey, Editorial Assistant for the Sport and
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also to Catriona Robb who read and made extensive comments on the manu-
script, providing invaluable assistance.
Our gratitude goes to both of our translators, Anne Losq and Sylvie Vert,
who followed this project from the beginning, and worked to tight deadlines
with flawless professionalism.
Finally, we both thank our families and, especially, Bertrand, Charles,
Antoine and Calypso, for their patience and support.