Gender Defenders of the Sport Binary: Mediating Discourses of Difference against Intersex and Transgender Female Athletes - Paperback

by Marie Hardin (Other), Andrew Billings (Other), Lawrence A. Wenner (Other)

This book examines 100 years of media coverage, decades of medical debate, and overlapping sport regulatory policies, this book considers how the force of cisgender ideology creates a singular narrative centered on fairness that dominates transgender and intersex women and erases them from elite sport.

Author Biography

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).