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

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.

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

Caster Semenya, a South African 18-year-old, won the 800-metre track running title at the Berlin World Athletics Championships in 2009. Only 3 h later, her gender was being harshly contested. The investigation of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) was neither discreet nor respectful of her privacy. Caster's case has implications for the ethics of sports and debates ab...

Are the new policies on hyperandrogenism in elite female athletes really out of bounds? Response to "out of bounds? A critique of the new policies on hyperandrogenism in elite female athletes".

In May 2011, more than a decade after the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) abandoned sex testing, they devised new policies in response to the IAAF's treatment of Caster Semenya, the South African runner whose sex was challenged because of her spectacular win and powerful physique that fueled an international frenzy question...

A Plea for Harm Reduction Policing Involving People Who Use Drugs