Category: woman / TVO and Proximity Films present ; written & directed by Phyllis Ellis ; producer, Howard Fraiberg.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Ellis, Phyllis, film director, screenwriter.

Women Make Movies (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Hindi

Swahili

Subjects (All):

Semenya, Caster, 1991-.

Semenya, Caster.

Runners (Sports)--Sex differences.

Runners (Sports).

Sex discrimination in sports.

Women athletes--Physiology.

Women athletes.

Women's rights.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (76 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Women Make Movies, 2022.

Language Note:

English, Hindi, Swahili dialogue; Closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

System Details:

DVD-R, NTSC; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation.

Summary:

"When 18-year-old South African runner Caster Semenya burst onto the world stage in 2009, her championship was not celebrated, but instead launched a series of increasingly invasive public attacks, exposing her personal medical records via the international media, and stirring relentless debates on her "legitimacy" as an athlete and as a woman. Using women's naturally varying androgen levels to evaluate their performance advantages, the sporting institution World Athletics create new rules declaring certain female athletes must medically alter their healthy bodies to compete in their sport. Category: Woman focuses on four athletes from the Global South who are targeted and forced out of competition by these regulations, and explores the devastation both to their bodies and their private lives. Filmmaker and former Olympian Phyllis Ellis exposes an industry controlled by men that puts women's lives at risk and raises issues of racism, sexism, and the right to determine another persons' biological sex." --ff.hrw.org.

Credits:

Director of photography, Iris Eng.

OCLC:

1385981295