Post-colonial Feminism, Black Feminism and Sport

Trans Women and/in Sport: Exploring Sport Feminisms to Understand Exclusions

“…In accordance with Ratna and Samie's work (2017), Brown (2018) provides an important critique of sport, specifically the representation and treatment of black female bodies, through discussions of post-colonial and black feminism. She evidences how 'women of colour are Othered, and viewed as existing outside of the realm of emphasised femininity that is tied to whiteness' (p. 490).…”

“…For instance, how global governing bodies of athletics (and white cisgender male figure heads such as Coe) treat runners Caster Semenya and Santhi Soundarajan is a reminder of how colonial processes operate through a complex web of westernlegitimised medical/'scientific' and public discourse, to define womanhood in sporting contexts (Batelaan and Abdel-Shehid, 2021). Re-iterating Spivak's argument, this process is built upon epistemic violence because it is white hegemonic femininity (Brown, 2018;Wheaton et al, 2020) that is assumed and determined as the exemplar of womanhood (Adjepong and Carrington, 2014;Magubane, 2014;Ratna and Samie, 2017).…”

“…Black feminists demonstrate racial power and ignorance surrounding the production of dominant white versions of 'womanhood'. These de-colonial theoretical interventions have been applied, successfully, to sport studies scholarship by key writers (Adjepong and Carrington, 2014;Brown, 2018;Joseph and Kriger, 2021;McDonald and Shelby, 2018;Ratna and Samie, 2017) to develop and expand our understanding of gender, and the sexed body. Hines (2020) discusses transgender as impacted by 'white colonial rule in which local understandings and practices of gender diversity were disappeared' (p. 705).…”

Everyday bordering. Theoretical perspectives on national ‘others’ in sport and leisure time physical activity

“…Together with the postcolonial theory, a so-called third-wave feminism emerged in the North American scholarship in the 1980s (Diaz 2003). In comparison with the first and second waves of feminism, the third wave involved a critique of Western feminist studies for their claim to universalism and for misrepresenting non-western women as a homogenously oppressed group (Brown 2018). Influential studies like Chandra Mohanty's Under western eyes point out how western feminist scholars represented third-world women as poor and uneducated as well as victimised through domestic obligations such as caring for family and traditions (Mohanty 1988).…”

Intersexualität im Sport

“…Jahrhunderts bezeugt, beschränkt sich zunächst auf den internationalen Mediendiskurs, und wird seit den 1930er Jahren auch im Rahmen mehrheitlich heteronormativ angelegter Forschungen im biomedizinischen Diskurs verhandelt (Knoll 1936;Bausenwein 1969;Prokop 1961;Jörgensen & Eberle 1972). Kritische Forschungen widmen sich dem Thema »Intersexualität im Sport« verstärkt seit 2009 und wenden sich seitdem mehrheitlich den Fällen von Caster Semenya (Günter 2015(Günter , 2017Camporesi & Maugeri 2010;Hoad 2010;Munro 2010;Rose 2016;Salo 2016;Caplan 2010;Cooky, Dycus & Dworkin 2013;Liotard 2016;Sloop 2016) sowie seit Kurzem auch von Santhi Soundarajan (Travers 2018;Brown 2018;Günther 2018) und Dutee Chand (Franklin, Betancurt & Camporesi 2018) zu. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeiten werden die Sportler*innen unter Einbeziehung poststrukturalistischer und postkolonialer Theorieansätze als exemplarische Fälle diskutiert, um an ihnen eine zeitgenössische Regulierungsapparatur aufzuzeigen, welche die Trennung der Geschlechter und die Herstellung von Zweigeschlechterordnung anleitet.…”