Caster Semenya: sport, categories and the creative role of ethics.

Policing the boundaries of sex: a critical examination of gender verification and the Caster Semenya controversy.

On August 19, 2009, Caster Semenya, South African track star, won a gold medal in the women's 800-meter event. According to media reports, on the same day, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) ordered Semenya to undergo gender verification testing. This article critically assesses the main concepts and claims that undergird international sport organizations' policies re...

Sex Dilemmas, Amazons and Cyborgs: Feminist Cultural Studies and Sport

In this article, I discuss sport and physical activities as a field of empirical investigation for feminist cultural studies with a potential to contribute to theorizing the body, gender and difference. Sport has, historically, served to legitimize and reinforce the gender dichotomy by making men “masculine” through developing physical strength and endurance, while women generally have been exc...

Either/or: sports, sex, and the case of Caster Semenya.

The testosterone rule—constructing fairness in professional sport

INTRODUCTION This note engages in the public debate over the participation of female athletes with hyperandrogenism in professional sport. Hyperandrogenism, a condition leading to higher testosterone levels than would be expected for ‘biological females’, is thought by many to provide affected athletes with a competitive edge over non-affected athletes.1 In 2011, when public attention was drawn...

The mediating role of professional ethics in the relationship between sport exercise and quality of work life and job performance (Case Study of Education Departments of sistan and balochestan)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the The mediating role of professional ethics in the relationship between sport exercise and quality of work life and job performance. The type of the study was descriptive-correlational and its statistical population was all educational staff of Sistan and Baluchestan (688 persons). The sample size was 248 persons based on Morgan table that were sel...