Full Description
This thought-provoking book takes a critical look at the relationship between biological sex and gender identity in the context of sport and considers the consequent implications for sport policy.
It argues that biological sex is essential to an understanding of female athletes and sport participants, including the sex gap in sports performance, the history of female exclusion from sport, and the importance of the female sport category in relation to equal human rights, competitive opportunities and fairness for girls and women. This book features the work of leading international scholars and practitioners working in a variety of disciplines, including sport history, sport medicine, sport philosophy, sport physiology, sport policy and sport sociology, as well as equality, discrimination and human rights law. It examines the history of sex and gender in sport and introduces the fundamental anatomy, physiology and biomechanics of the female athlete, as well as the science of testosterone suppression, supplementation and disorders/differences of sex development (DSD). It also explores the theoretical debates around sex, gender identity and trans athletes in sport, including categorisation by sex, and considers their significance in terms of international and domestic sport policy, discrimination, fair competition and human rights.
Centring the female athlete as the majority stakeholder in decisions regarding eligibility for the female category, this book is essential reading for anybody with an interest in women's sport, social issues in sport, sport science, sport policy or gender studies.
Contents
PART I
Context
1 Introduction
Cathy Devine
2 The impact of sex and gender in the history of women's sport participation
Carol A. Osborne
3 Bridging the gap between the sexes in physical activity
Marie Murphy and Nanette Mutrie
PART II
Biology
4 The biological life phases of active and athletic women
Kerry McGawley, Claire Badenhorst and Georgina K. Stebbings
5 The physiological basis of sex differences in sports performance and the effects of testosterone suppression and supplementation
Georgina K. Stebbings and Kerry McGawley
6 Athletes with disorders/differences of sex development
Cathy Devine
PART III
Theory
7 Materialist feminism, gender identity theory and sport: Irreconcilable differences
Jane Clare Jones and Cathy Devine
8 The sex category in sport
Irena Martínková, Taryn Knox, Lynley Anderson and Jim Parry
9 Human rights, goods and preferences in sport
Leslie A. Howe
PART IV
Policy, law and human rights
10 International sport policy
Cathy Devine
11 National sport policy
Cathy Devine
12 Sport and UK law
Naomi Cunningham and Michael Foran
13 Human rights, sex, gender identity and sport
Cathy Devine
Female athletes' voices and conclusions
14 Centring the female athlete voice on sex, gender identity and sport: An in-depth survey of 25 current and former female Canadian high-performance athletes
Cathy Devine
15 Ten elite female Canadian current and former athletes' perspectives on transgender eligibility for elite sport: A qualitative analysis using semi-structured interviews
Cathy Devine
16 Conclusions
Cathy Devine
