Sporting Gender explores both the historical and current issues of defining gender in sports, especially regarding intersex and transgender athletes. It not only covers important events and regulations, but also delves into the lives of the athletes themselves to provide a personal perspective on the science of athletic performance.
Sporting Gender explores both the historical and current issues of defining gender in sports, especially regarding intersex and transgender athletes. It not only covers important events and regulations, but also delves into the lives of the athletes themselves to provide a personal perspective on the science of athletic performance.
Joanna Harper is a medical physicist who has written extensively on gender and sport. She has been an expert advisor to many international sports federations, including the International Olympic Committee, on matters relating to gender variance and sport. Harper was an expert witness for the IAAF at both the Semenya and Chand trials before the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Harper has been racing at a relatively high level for over forty years-first in the men's category, and for the last twelve years in the women's category.
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Foreword David Epstein Acknowledgments Introduction 1: "Prehistoric" Women's Sport 2: The Science of Intersex Conditions 3: Intersex Athletes in the 1930S 4: Postwar Sex Testing 5: Transgender 101 6: Early Transgender Athletes 7: Not the End of Sex Testing 8: Joanna's Story 9: Transgender and Intersex Athletes, 2004-2009 10: Caster Semenya 11: Transgender and Intersex Athletes, 2009-2014 12: The Post-Semenya Landscape 13: Dutee Chand 14: Dutee Chand versus the IAAF in the CAS 15: Transgender Athletes, 2013-2017 16: The 2016 IOC Transgender Guidelines 17: Aftermath of the CAS Decision in the Chand Case 18: Transgender Athletes, 2015-2018 19: Transgender Athletic Research Update 20: The Caster Semenya Trial Epilogue: One Last Story Recent Developments in Gender and Sports Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
Foreword David Epstein Acknowledgments Introduction 1: "Prehistoric" Women's Sport 2: The Science of Intersex Conditions 3: Intersex Athletes in the 1930S 4: Postwar Sex Testing 5: Transgender 101 6: Early Transgender Athletes 7: Not the End of Sex Testing 8: Joanna's Story 9: Transgender and Intersex Athletes, 2004-2009 10: Caster Semenya 11: Transgender and Intersex Athletes, 2009-2014 12: The Post-Semenya Landscape 13: Dutee Chand 14: Dutee Chand versus the IAAF in the CAS 15: Transgender Athletes, 2013-2017 16: The 2016 IOC Transgender Guidelines 17: Aftermath of the CAS Decision in the Chand Case 18: Transgender Athletes, 2015-2018 19: Transgender Athletic Research Update 20: The Caster Semenya Trial Epilogue: One Last Story Recent Developments in Gender and Sports Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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