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By Lindsay Pieper

ISBN-10: 0252040228

ISBN-13: 9780252040221

ISBN-10: 0252081684

ISBN-13: 9780252081682

In 1968, the foreign Olympic Committee (IOC) carried out intercourse checking out for lady athletes at that year's video games. whilst it turned transparent that checking out regimes didn't delineate a intercourse divide, the IOC started to try for gender --a shift that allowed the association to manage the very suggestion of womanhood. Lindsay Parks Pieper explores intercourse checking out in recreation from the Thirties to the early 2000s. targeting assumptions and ambitions in addition to potential, Pieper examines how the IOC specifically insisted on a faulty binary concept of gender that privileged Western norms. trying out advanced right into a device to identify--and eliminate--athletes the IOC deemed too robust, too quickly, or too winning. Pieper exhibits how the program punished talented girls whereas hindering the advance of women's athletics for many years. She additionally finds how the mistaken notions at the back of testing--ideas usually sexist, racist, or ridiculous--degraded the very inspiration of girl athleticism.

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