Regulating Bodies
Elite Sport Policies and Their Unintended Consequences
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2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-761649-9 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-761649-9 (ISBN)
Regulating Bodies offers the first global history of protective policies in elite sports and asks how far we are willing to go in the name of sporting excellence.
How far are we willing to go in the name of "better sport"?
Athletes have long sought to push the limits of human potential, but the advent and application of new knowledge, science, and technologies has taken elite sports into uncharted territory. It's no longer enough to break records—today's sport is about athletes surpassing their "natural" limits in the name of accomplishing the impossible.
With highlights across the spectrum of professional athletics from ski jumping to horse racing, Regulating Bodies narrates the global scientization of the sports industry and the lasting influence of protective sports policies on international discourses around race, sex, identity, and impairment. While these classifications are designed to protect athletes' wellbeing in the spirit of fair play, protective policies can be shallow solutions to deeper problems—offering the appearance of care while failing to safeguard athletes from more pressing concerns. Regulating Bodies investigates the development of protective policies across topics such as gene doping and sex testing to show how current policies impede the progress of athletic development by engendering unethical and unhealthy practices at the expense of an athlete's individual rights. It offers a pathway forward beyond traditional sports categorization with alternative regulatory strategies to reflect the next generation of high-performance athletes.
A scoping inquiry into the modern sports industry, Regulating Bodies asks us whether the unending quest for sporting excellence is worth the financial, social, and human toll it inevitably takes on participants at every level of elite sports.
How far are we willing to go in the name of "better sport"?
Athletes have long sought to push the limits of human potential, but the advent and application of new knowledge, science, and technologies has taken elite sports into uncharted territory. It's no longer enough to break records—today's sport is about athletes surpassing their "natural" limits in the name of accomplishing the impossible.
With highlights across the spectrum of professional athletics from ski jumping to horse racing, Regulating Bodies narrates the global scientization of the sports industry and the lasting influence of protective sports policies on international discourses around race, sex, identity, and impairment. While these classifications are designed to protect athletes' wellbeing in the spirit of fair play, protective policies can be shallow solutions to deeper problems—offering the appearance of care while failing to safeguard athletes from more pressing concerns. Regulating Bodies investigates the development of protective policies across topics such as gene doping and sex testing to show how current policies impede the progress of athletic development by engendering unethical and unhealthy practices at the expense of an athlete's individual rights. It offers a pathway forward beyond traditional sports categorization with alternative regulatory strategies to reflect the next generation of high-performance athletes.
A scoping inquiry into the modern sports industry, Regulating Bodies asks us whether the unending quest for sporting excellence is worth the financial, social, and human toll it inevitably takes on participants at every level of elite sports.
Jaime Schultz is a Professor of Kinesiology with an affiliate faculty appointment in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University. An award-winning teacher and scholar, she has published widely on issues relating to sex, gender, sexuality, "race," and sport. Schultz currently serves as co-editor of the "Sport and Society" series at the University of Illinois Press.
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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Regulating Weight
Chapter 2: Regulating Sex
Chapter 3: Regulating Impairment
Chapter 4: Regulating Dope
Chapter 5: Regulating Genetics
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.05.2024 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 567 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport |
| Naturwissenschaften | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
| Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-761649-6 / 0197616496 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-761649-9 / 9780197616499 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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