"They say I'm not a girl" : case studies of gender verification in elite sports / Max Dohle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dohle, Max, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Sex differences.

Sports.

Sex discrimination in sports.

Intersex athletes.

Physical Description:

173 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2020]

Summary:

""In July 1950, a young Dutch intersex woman was expelled from elite competition by the International Amateur Athletic Federation. It turned out to be the beginning of a dark era in the history of women in sport. Dozens of intersex athletes were suspended, although no fraud was ever uncovered. Suspension had pernicious effects on their lives. They hardly appeared in public, lived in solitude, committed suicide or attempted to. Biographies of these banned athletes highlight the unfair play of gender verification and of their exclusion from competition."--Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface: The Humiliating Practice of Gender Verification

Preliminaries: The Man-Woman Athlete in the 1930s; or, Gender Reassignment in Pre-War Sport

The XX-Games: A Short History of Gender Verification

Dora Ratjen: "Da sei etwas nicht in Ordnung"

Foekje Dillema: "They say I'm not a girl"

Ewa Klobukowska: One Chromosome Too Many

Erika Schinegger: Gender Born or Gender Made?

Stella Walsh: The Murder of the Polish Flyer

Maria José Martinez Patiño: The First Protest

Blackmail and Suicide

Sarah Gronert: Tennis Anyone?

Caster Semenya and Dutee Chand: Changing the Rules.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781476673783

1476673780

OCLC:

1111614696