Transgender Athletes in Competitive Sport

Herausgeber: Anderson, Eric; Travers, Ann

• Gebundenes 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. It considers how transgender athletes are treated by a system predicated on separating males from females, forcing transgender athletes to negotiate the system in coercive ways, and reviews key issues and contemporary cases. Encouraging reflection on our culture's binary thinking on sex and gender, it offers recommendations on how to make sport a more inclusive place for all participants.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781138235632
• ISBN-10: 1138235636
• Artikelnr.: 48454709

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]