Caster Semenya, Gender Verification and the Politics of Fairness in an Online Track & Field Community

Autor:	Cassandra Wells, Simon C. Darnell
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Politics Sociology and Political Science Field (Bourdieu) TRACK FIELD Normative Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Gender studies Sociology Social psychology
Zdroj:	Sociology of Sport Journal. 31:44-65
ISSN:	1543-2785 0741-1235
DOI:	10.1123/ssj.2012-0173
Popis:	The sex testing of South African runner Caster Semenya in 2009 was widely discussed in media, but the most serious and significant sites of debate may have been within the cultures and institutions of track & field itself. In this article, we report findings from an analysis of an online track & field community—TrackNet Listserv—through which the Semenya case, and the politics and ethics of sex testing, were discussed. The results suggest that listserv members recognized the contestability of sex testing policies and identified with feminist struggles, but nevertheless largely argued for sex testing’s necessity in light of understandings of the biologically normative female body and the importance of maintaining fairness in and through sex-segregated sport. The implications for the sport of track & field and for sporting feminisms are discussed.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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