Sex and gender in sport categorization: aiming for terminological clarity

Multidimensional Categorization in Terminological Definitions

EcoLexicon (http://ecolexicon.ugr.es) is a terminological knowledge base on the environment that currently holds 3,351 concepts and a total of 17,475 terms in English, Spanish, German, Russian, French, and Modern Greek. Concepts are linked by means of hierarchical and non-hierarchical relations in dynamic networks and in definitions. The environmental domain is interdisciplinary and its concept...

Scholarship on Gender and Sport in Sex Roles and Beyond

In this paper we critically review how research on girls or women and sport has developed over the last 35 years. We use a post-positivist lens to explore the content of the papers published in Sex Roles in the area of women, gender and sport and examine the shifts in how gender and sport have been conceptualized in these accounts. In order to initiate a broader dialogue about the scholarly ana...

Gender verification in sport.

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

Sex and Gender Segregation in Competitive Sport: Internal and External Normative Perspectives

A common credo in modern sports is that athletic competition transcends human social difference; within the arena of competitive sport, a person’s performance is the only thing that matters. But at the same time, in many sports, participants are placed into separate classes that are prevented from mixing in competition. Adult males do not compete against young boys in weightlifting contests; hi...