Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport

Herausgeber: Anderson, Eric; Travers, Ann

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first comprehensive study of the challenges that transgender athletes face in the hyper-macho, sex segregated institution of sport. The book discusses the historical role that sports have played in preserving sex as a binary and examines how gender has been policed within competitive athletics.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9780367233198
• ISBN-10: 0367233193
• Artikelnr.: 56924354

Autorenporträt

Eric Anderson is Professor of Sport, Masculinities and Sexualities at the University of Winchester, UK. He holds four degrees, has published 17 books, over 60 peer-reviewed articles, and is regularly featured in international television, print and digital media. Professor Anderson is recognized for research excellence by the British Academy of Social Sciences and is a fellow of the International Academy of Sex Research. His work shows a decline in cultural homohysteria and promotes inclusive attitudes toward openly gay, lesbian and bisexual athletes as well as a softening of heterosexual masculinities Ann Travers is Associate Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. She has published two books, 13 peer-reviewed articles, is a regular presenter at conferences relating to sport, embodiment and sociology more generally. She has received over $200,000 in funding for her research relating to sport and gender and transgender issues in sport

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
[Eric Anderson and Ann Travers]
Section I: Individual Stories of Transgender Sporting Experiences
1. Advantage Renée?: Renée Richards and Women's Tennis
[Lindsay Parks Pieper]
2. My name is Jay, I Transitioned and I'm a Disabled Young Athlete
[Jay Anonymous]
3. Becoming Me: Transitioning, Training and Surgery
[Riley McCormack and Maylon Hanold]
Section II: Research into Transgender Sporting Experiences
4. An Introduction to Five Exceptional Trans Athletes from Around the World
[Kinnon MacKinnon]
5. Between Stigmatization and Empowerment: Meanings of Physical Activity
and Sport in the Lives of Transgender People
[Agnes Elling and Kiki Collot d'Escury]
6. Athletes' Perceptions of Transgender Eligibility Policies Applied in
High-Performance Sport in Canada
[Sarah Teetzel]
7. Sport and Physical Exercise among Spanish Trans Persons
[Victor Manuel Perez Samaniego, Sofía Pereira-García, Elena Lopez-Cañada
and
José Devís-Devís]
8. Honesty and Discipline: Identity Management of Transgender Netballers
[Brendon Tagg]
9. The Experiences of Female-to-Male Transgender Athletes
[Mark Ogville]
10. Media Accounts of the First Transgender Person to Work in the English
Premier League
[Rory Magrath]
Section III: When Policy and Identity Clash
11. Subjective Sex: Science, Medicine and Sex Tests in Sports
[Vanessa Heggie]
12. Including Transgender Students in United States School-Based Athletics
[Helen Carroll]
13. Transgender Athletes in Elite Sport Competitions: Equity and
Inclusivity
[Eric Vilain, Jonathan Ospina Betancurt, Nereida Bueno-Guerra and Maria
Jose Martinez-Patiño]
Section IV: Challenging the System
14. From Transsexuals to Transhumans in Elite Athletics: The Implications
of Osteology (and Other Issues) in Levelling the Playing Field
[Michelle Sutherland, Richard Wassersug and Karen Rosenberg]
15. The Tenuous Inclusion of Transgender Athletes in Sport
[Adam Love]
16. Queer Genes? The Bio-Amazons Project: A Response to Critics
[Claudio Tamburrini]