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Gender Verifications in Sport: From an East/West Antagonism to a North/South Antagonism

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This paper aims to analyze gender verifications in sport from a socio-historical approach. These medical controls intended to keep men from competing in women's international competitions. Some female athletes are put through a masculinization trial, because of morphologies and performances judged as too masculine. Facing these athletes who disrupt the representation of a binary construction between the male sex and the female sex, sports institutions attempt to maintain a sexual bi-categorization. More precisely, this paper will present the ‘symbolic’ suppression of tests since 2000. Thereafter, authorities only rely on an aesthetic and visual assessment of female bodies and no longer use tests in a systematic and obligatory fashion. This reveals the moving boundary subjectively plotted between the masculine and the feminine, which become all the more blurred when the ‘race and class markers’ interfere with the ‘sex markers’.
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hal-03470700 , version 1 (08-12-2021)

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Anaïs Bohuon. Gender Verifications in Sport: From an East/West Antagonism to a North/South Antagonism. International Journal of the History of Sport, 2015, 32 (7), pp.965-979. ⟨10.1080/09523367.2015.1037746⟩. ⟨hal-03470700⟩
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