Tag: Jaime Schultz

World Athletics (WA) recently announced that it will reinstitute mandatory sex testing in women’s track and field and require competitors to submit to a cheek swab or dry blood spot analysis for genetic testing to verify their sex. In this article, Lindsay Parks Pieper, Jaime Schultz and Jörg Krieger analyse this move by WA in light of almost one hundred years of highly questionable and ultimately failed attempts of different kinds to determine athletes’ sex. Using the SRY gene as determinator is doomed to fail for exactly the same reason, it being scientifically and ethically unsound.

After 131 years, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has finally elected its first woman president: 41-year-old Kirsty Coventry, a five-time Olympic swimmer who represented Zimbabwe from 2000 to 2016. In what they call a “critical celebration,” Jörg Krieger, Jaime Schultz and Lindsay Parks Pieper trace earlier milestones in women’s Olympic leadership to historically contextualize Coventry’s appointment. While they show how far the movement has come, they also highlight how far there is still to go.

The purpose of NASSH is to promote, stimulate, and encourage study and research and writing of the history of sport, and to support and cooperate with local, national, and international organizations having the same purposes. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: “I Quit”: Head Trauma, Chair Shots, and North American Professional Wrestling in the 1990s by Conor Heffernan; Claire Warden.

The purpose of NASSH is to promote, stimulate, and encourage study and research and writing of the history of sport, and to support and cooperate with local, national, and international organizations having the same purposes. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Antecedent and Aftermath: A History of Synchronized Swimming by Synthia Sydnor..

Arguably, trans people are subject to discrimination, or worse. Whether or not they are also, as trans athletes, discriminated in sports is a moot point. In a new edited collection, Justice for Trans Athletes: Challenges and Struggles by Ali Durham Greey & Helen Jefferson Lenskyj (Emerald), the contributors argue for full inclusion of transwomen athletes in the female category of competitive sports. Our reviewer, legal and political philosopher Miroslav Imbrišević is a well-known exponent of the opposite view.

Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal (WSPAJ) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted to advancing the understanding of women in sport and physical activity. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: An Intersectional Analysis of the Recruitment and Participation of Second-Generation African Canadian Adolescent Girls in a Community Basketball Program in Ottawa, Canada by Amina Haggar, Audrey R. Giles.

The purpose of NASSH is to promote, stimulate, and encourage study and research and writing of the history of sport, and to support and cooperate with local, national, and international organizations having the same purposes. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Susan: Wha's Like Her? by Catriona M. Parratt.

Kinesiology Review is a peer-reviewed publication whose mission ir is to advance the field of Kinesiology by publishing evaluative, insightful, and integrative scholarly reviews of kinesiology research, both basic and applied. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: From Sport Psychology to Sport and Exercise Psychology: A 40-year Update by Diane L. Gill, Erin J. Reifsteck, Leilani Madrigal.

Academics in various disciplines are writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘I don’t know if America would have picked me:’ athletic, national, and racial identities of the U.S. Men’s Kabaddi Team by Sam Winemiller

The International Journal of the History of Sport is the world’s leading sport history academic periodical with fully-refereed global coverage of the subject. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: BATTING, RUNNING, AND ‘BURNING’ IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE: A CONTRIBUTION TO THE DEBATE ON THE ROOTS OF BASEBALL by Isak Lidström & Daniel Bjärsholm.