Trans Athletes’ Resistance -

Trans Athletes’ Resistance

The Struggle for Justice in Sport
Buch | Hardcover
176 Seiten
2023
Emerald Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-80382-364-5 (ISBN)
105,65 inkl. MwSt
Acknowledging the formidable hurdles trans and nonbinary athletes face in their struggles for inclusion, acceptance, and freedom, this book documents and analyses their resistance across a range of social-cultural and geopolitical contexts, from community sport to high-performance competition.
With sport representing one of the last bastions of binary thinking, trans and nonbinary athletes face formidable hurdles in their struggles for inclusion, acceptance, and freedom. Trans Athletes’ Resistance: The Struggle for Justice in Sport documents and analyses individual and collective resistance initiated by trans and nonbinary athletes and allies across a range of social-cultural and geopolitical contexts, from community sport to high-performance competition.


In addition to sociological investigations of global, national, and local resistance, contributors present case studies and first-person accounts of struggles to challenge structural barriers and interpersonal hostility.


Challenging policy-makers' binary definitions of males and females, the dominance of the achievement model, and toxic masculinity within sporting subcultures, the book explores how trans and nonbinary athletes not only resist transphobic policies and practices but also create new models of inclusive sport.


The book has important implications for gender-inclusive policy development. Contributors present new methodologies and ways of theorizing the complex relationships among sex, gender, and sexuality in the equally complex terrain of sport and physical activity.

Ali Durham Greey (they/them) is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. Their work examines the experiences of trans and nonbinary people in sport and education. Ali is a SSHRC- Joseph-Armand Bombardier Scholar and a retired member of the Canadian Olympic boxing team. Helen Jefferson Lenskyj (she/her) is Professor Emerita, University of Toronto. Her work as a researcher and activist on gender and sport issues began in the 1980s, and her critiques of the Olympic industry include seven books, most recently The Olympic Games: A Critical Approach (Emerald, 2020).

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Binary World of Sport: Belonging and Resistance; Helen Jefferson Lenskyj and Ali Durham Greey

Part 1. Trans Athletes’ Resistance: The Sociocultural Context

Chapter 2. Trans Athletes and the Limits of Recognition, Visibility, and Intelligibility; C.B. Lucas and Matthew R. Hodler

Chapter 3. The Locker Room Politics of the Meninos Bons de Bola and the Rise of the Right in Brazil; CK Snyder

Chapter 4. Policy on the Run? The Development of Trans and Gender Diverse Inclusion Policies in Community Sport in Australia; Ryan Storr, Anna Posbergh, and Sheree Bekker

Part 2. Autoethnography: A Methodology for Trans Athletes’ Resistance

Chapter 5. Slipping into the Shadows? Boxing, Affect and Healing Justice; Dan Irving

Chapter 6. Bobbing and Weaving: A Nonbinary Boxer’s Experiences of Sport, Gender, and Resistance; Ali Durham Greey

Chapter 7. Collateral Damage From Anti-Transgender US Legislation: Perspectives From a Transgender Student-Athlete; Estel Boix Noguer and Leslie K. Larsen

Part 3. Trans Athletes’ Resistance: Case Studies

Chapter 8. Embodying Disobedience, Inciting Resistance: Nonbinary Athletes and the Limits of Gender in Sport; Sabeehah Ravat

Chapter 9. Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Persons’ Experiences of Recreational Sport and Physical Activity; Eva Bošnjak and William Bridel

Chapter 10. Conclusion: Resistance: The Way Forward; Helen Jefferson Lenskyj and Ali Durham Greey

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Emerald Studies in Sport and Gender
Verlagsort Bingley
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 371 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-80382-364-X / 180382364X
ISBN-13 978-1-80382-364-5 / 9781803823645
Zustand Neuware
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