How Long to Read Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport

How Long Does it Take to Read Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 42 minutes to read Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport by Sonja Erikainen

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book critically explores the history of gender verification in international sport, to show how culture, politics, and science come together to produce "femaleness" and, consequently, the female body as we know it. Tracing gender verification policies and practices in sport since the 1930s till the present, the book shows how and why medical "sex tests" have been used to "verify" women athletes’ femaleness, in ways that both reflect and have shaped broader social and scientific ideas about femaleness in the process. Exploring how geopolitics, gender, class and race relations intertwined with scientific ideas about femaleness and womanhood to shape gender verification, the book shows how sports competitions became a battleground where new and old ideas about sex difference collided. By mapping the social, historical, and material instability of sex and gender, it shows why so much investment has been placed in distinguishing femaleness from maleness in sport and beyond. The book will be of interest to researchers, later-year undergraduate and graduate students in a broad range of areas including gender studies, sports studies, social and historical studies of science and medicine. It will also be relevant to sports policy as it historically and conceptually contextualises gender verification policies.

How long is Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport?

Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport by Sonja Erikainen is 276 pages long, and a total of 70,656 words.

This makes it 93% the length of the average book. It also has 86% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 26 minutes to read Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport aloud.

What Reading Level is Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport?

Gender Verification and the Making of the Female Body in Sport is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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