Description: Testing for Athlete Citizenship : Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport, Hardcover by Henne, Kathryn E., ISBN 081356591X, ISBN-13 9780813565910, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK Incidents of doping in sports are common in news headlines, despite regulatory efforts. How did doping become a crisis? What does a doping violation actually entail? Who gets punished for breaking the rules of fair play? In Testing for Athlete Citizenship, Kathryn E. Henne, a former competitive athlete and an expert in the law and science of anti-doping regulations, examines the development of rules aimed at controlling performance enhancement in international sports. As international and celebrated figures, athletes are powerful symbols, yet few spectators realize that a global regulatory network is in place in an attempt to ensure ideals of fair play. The athletes caught and punished for doping are not always the ones using performance-enhancing drugs to cheat. In the case of female athletes, violations of fair play can stem from their inherent biological traits. Combining historical and ethnographic approaches, Testing for Athlete Citizenship offers a compelling account of the origins and expansion of anti-doping regulation and gender-verification rules. Drawing on research conducted in Australasia, Europe, and North America, Henne provides a detailed account of how race, gender, class, and postcolonial formations of power shape these ideas and regulatory practices. Testing for Athlete Citizenship makes a convincing case to rethink the power of regulation in sports and how it separates athletes as a distinct class of citizens subject to a unique set of rules because of their physical attributes and abilities.
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Book Title: Testing for Athlete Citizenship : Regulating Doping and Sex in Sp
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Publication Name: Testing for Athlete Citizenship: Regulating Doping and Sex in Sport
Language: English
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: Zoology
Publication Year: 2015
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Sociology of Sport, Social Law
Author: Kathryn E. Henne
Item Width: 152 mm
Series: Critical Issues in Sport and Society
Format: Hardcover