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Dear BSA-GENDER-STUDY-GROUP Subscribers, Free postage to UK customers. We hope the following title will be of interest to you: [CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v62), quality = 75]Sex Testing Gender Policing in Women's Sports Lindsay Pieper "For the first time, someone is pulling together the complete history of sex testing in sport. A very important book that makes a significant and unique contribution."--Alison M. Wrynn, former editor, Journal of Sports History "A timely and important book, the first in-depth history of its kind. Rich in detail and thorough in research, it is a must read for understanding the multiple layers of politics and ideology that inform gender policing in sport."--Kathryn Henne, author of Testing for Athlete Citizenship: Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport In 1968, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) implemented sex testing for female athletes at that year's Games. When it became clear that testing regimes failed to delineate a sex divide, the IOC began to test for gender --a shift that allowed the organization to control the very idea of womanhood. Lindsay Parks Pieper explores sex testing in sport from the 1930s to the early 2000s. Focusing on assumptions and goals as well as means, Pieper examines how the IOC in particular insisted on a misguided binary notion of gender that privileged Western norms. Testing evolved into a tool to identify--and eliminate--athletes the IOC deemed too strong, too fast, or too successful. Pieper shows how this system punished gifted women while hindering the development of women's athletics for decades. She also reveals how the flawed notions behind testing--ideas often sexist, racist, or ridiculous--degraded the very idea of female athleticism. Lindsay Parks Pieper is an assistant professor of sport management at Lynchburg College. University of Illinois Press Sport and Society May 2016 256pp 9780252081682 PB £17.99 now only £14.39* when you quote CSL16STEST when you order http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/sex-testing UK Postage and Packing FREE, Europe £4.50, RoW £4.99 (PLEASE QUOTE REF NUMBER: CSL16STEST** for discount) To order a copy please contact Marston on +44(0)1235 465500 or email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or visit our website: http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/sex-testing where you can also receive your discount *Price subject to change. **Offer excludes the USA, South America and Australia. Follow us on Twitter @CAP_Ltd<http://twitter.com/#!/CAP_Ltd> or Facebook Combined Academic Publishers<https://www.facebook.com/pages/Combined-Academic-Publishers/196269570500> The BSA Gender Study Group mailing list is for the exchange of ideas and information related to any aspect of Gender Studies and scholarship. We do not undertake editorial control of postings; viewpoints and information posted to the list do not necessarily represent the views of the convenors or association. We encourage respectful communication on the list and ask that questions related to specific postings be directed to the appropriate party.