Today we are joined by Kathryn Henne. Kathryn is a Research Fellow at the Regulatory Institutions Network, a research center housed at the Australian National University and also a fellow of the Research School of Asia and the Pacific. Kathryn joins us to talk about her article “The ‘Science’ of Fair Play in Sport: Gender and the Politics of Testing”, which will appear in the forthcoming issue of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. We discuss the shifting models of sex testing used by the International Olympic Committee, efforts to enforce the male female binary, and assumptions about fair play and the natural body.
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Letta Page — March 24, 2014
For more on sex testing, I also suggest this great article, "Woman Enough to Win?" here on TSP! http://thesocietypages.org/specials/sex-testing/
Podcast on The Society Pages | dr kate henne — March 25, 2014
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