Gender Defenders of the Sport Binary
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Travis R. Bell is an Associate Professor at the University of South Florida. He teaches visual storytelling, sports media, and media theory. His research spans communication and sport, publishing in Communication & Sport, International Journal of Sport Communication, and Sociology of Sport. He is lead author of CTE, Media, and the NFL (2019).
Anne C. Osborne is Professor of Communications at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She teaches and conducts research at the intersections of gender, sport, and media. She has published peer-reviewed articles in International Journal of Sport Communication, Journal of Public Relations Research, and Sport in Society, and she is lead author of Female Fans of the NFL: Taking their Place in the Stands (2016).
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Introduction: Sex as Fundamental to Women's Sport - Discourse of Defense: Sport Policy as a Foundation of Sex- Segregation - Discourse of Diagnosis: Medicalizing Intersex and Transgender - Discourse of Difference: American Newspaper Coverage from 1900-1959 - Discourse of Dissuasion: Sport's Institutionalization of Testing Femininity, 1960-1969 - Discourse of Defiance: Athletes Finally Have a Voice, 1970-1999 - Discourse of Division: Sex Segregation Under the Cloak of Gender Inclusion, 2000-2016 - Discourse of Cis- Duty: A Panicked Return to Sex Exclusion, 2017-2023 - Conclusion: Discourse of Destruction: Emphasized Femininity to Discipline Gender for Intersex and Transgender Athletes - Index.
