Tag: Lindsay Parks Pieper

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: Asia Pride Games (The Straits Games): Past, Present, and Future by Max D. López Toledano.

It has taken over a century to get to an equal number of female and male athletes at a Summer Olympic Games. While there is still much to do to achieve full gender parity, Lindsay Parks Pieper’s and Jörg Krieger’s slim volume Women in the Olympics (Common Ground) charts women’s struggles and successes in trying to compete in the Olympics. Katie Taylor is our reviewer, and she is impressed with the authors’ historic-sociological approach that makes the book extremely useful for students and lecturers alike.

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.

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: A morphogenetic approach to sport and social inclusion: a case study of good will’s reproductive power by Tony Blomqvist Mickelsson (open access).

In the edited collection Restart: Sport After the Covid-19 Time Out by Jörg Krieger, April Henning & Lindsay Parks Pieper (Common Ground), practitioners and international scholars explore the “restart» of sport and fitness following the initial period of lockdowns during spring 2020. Sport sociologist Jan Ove Tangen is appreciative of the individual chapters, but not at all happy with the way they interact within the collection. A more instructive Introduction would have helped, as would a concluding summing-up chapter.

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.

Sport History Review encourages the submission of scholarly articles, methodological and research notes, and commentaries. SHR encourages graduate students and young professionals to submit their work for publication. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Philippe Tissié’s Psychopedagogical Conceptions of Physical Education: Franco-Swedish Hybridity (1886–1935) by Pierre-Alban Lebecq, Yves Moralès, Jean Saint-Martin, Yves Travaillot, Natalia Bazoge.

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: The Big O: The Life and Times of Olsen Filipaina, Pacific Revolution Pioneer, book review by Ron Palenski.

By placing scholars from various disciplines side-by-side on the common topic of the Olympic Games, JOS (available in both print and electronic format and marketed to a global scholarly audience) aims to promote and encourage a multi-disciplinary understanding of the Olympic Movement. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Rethinking a Miracle: The Role of Whiteness in the 1980 Miracle on Ice by Alexandra Mountain.