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Sex differences and sex segregation

February 9, 20203 Mins Read

This essay is Part Two of the Who Can Play? Race, Gender, and Bodies series. The introduction that follows below…

Sports, socialization and the construction of gender

January 15, 20203 Mins Read

This essay is Part One of the Who Can Play? Race, Gender, and Bodies series. The introduction that follows below…

I’ll Climb That Hill In My Own Way: (Dis)Locating The Naturalized Body In Professional Cycling’s Banned Erythropoietin Use Between 1990-2010 (6/6)

November 8, 20196 Mins Read

Part 6: Conclusion (& Bibliography). The case study of erythropoietin in the Tour de France is intriguing precisely because it…

I’ll Climb That Hill In My Own Way: (Dis)Locating The Naturalized Body In Professional Cycling’s Banned Erythropoietin Use Between 1990-2010 (5/6)

October 20, 201914 Mins Read

Part Five: The discourses surrounding banned performance-enhancing techniques perpetuate gendered and raced narratives of natural difference. Biological difference is predicated…

I’ll Climb That Hill In My Own Way: (Dis)Locating The Naturalized Body In Professional Cycling’s Banned Erythropoietin Use Between 1990-2010 (4/6)

October 4, 201915 Mins Read

Part Four: “Natural” is Discourse. What is coded as a “natural” body is not a natural inevitability at all, but discursively…

I’ll Climb That Hill In My Own Way: (Dis)Locating The Naturalized Body In Professional Cycling’s Banned Erythropoietin Use Between 1990-2010 (3/6)

September 7, 201914 Mins Read

Part Three: Case Study. The body, with all its gendered and racialized associations, became the concept through which cycling as…

I’ll Climb That Hill In My Own Way: (Dis)Locating The Naturalized Body In Professional Cycling’s Banned Erythropoietin Use Between 1990-2010 (2/6)

August 30, 20193 Mins Read

Part Two: Background. The history of drug testing in sports is specifically a history of regulating physical bodies.

I’ll Climb That Hill In My Own Way: (Dis)Locating The Naturalized Body In Professional Cycling’s Banned Erythropoietin Use Between 1990-2010 (1/6)

August 23, 20196 Mins Read

Part One: Introduction. Modern illicit performance-enhancing techniques serve to reify the idea of a “natural” body.

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Browsing: Essays

Sex differences and sex segregation

Sports, socialization and the construction of gender

I’ll Climb That Hill In My Own Way: (Dis)Locating The Naturalized Body In Professional Cycling’s Banned Erythropoietin Use Between 1990-2010 (6/6)

I’ll Climb That Hill In My Own Way: (Dis)Locating The Naturalized Body In Professional Cycling’s Banned Erythropoietin Use Between 1990-2010 (5/6)

I’ll Climb That Hill In My Own Way: (Dis)Locating The Naturalized Body In Professional Cycling’s Banned Erythropoietin Use Between 1990-2010 (4/6)

I’ll Climb That Hill In My Own Way: (Dis)Locating The Naturalized Body In Professional Cycling’s Banned Erythropoietin Use Between 1990-2010 (3/6)

I’ll Climb That Hill In My Own Way: (Dis)Locating The Naturalized Body In Professional Cycling’s Banned Erythropoietin Use Between 1990-2010 (2/6)

I’ll Climb That Hill In My Own Way: (Dis)Locating The Naturalized Body In Professional Cycling’s Banned Erythropoietin Use Between 1990-2010 (1/6)

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