Women's Studies 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Kathrine Switzer, Victorian America, Hypersexuality
13 Apr 2018
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Lecture 10
A Taes: Queeig “pot
- Taes’ ok eploes 20th-etu lesia softall leagues ad hat the offe uee
women – as well as inclusion/exclusion policies of these leagues for trans players.
-Women only spaces
Katherine Switzer and The Boston Marathon-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOGXvBAmTsY
According to Sport Scholar and Historian Susan Cahn
• the gedeig of spot ad Vitoia Aeia estalished expectations for sport
performance in relation to what were firmly labelled masculine ualities: aggessio,
phsialit, opetitie spiit, athleti skill
• Toughess, stegth, skill as aish ualities
Women Players Carve Space: Action into the ’s
• Women contest repressive Victorian aspects of public life
• Woe’s Athleti Ogaizatios appea o apuses, ad oe patiipate i golf,
swimming, tennis, asketall, estlig, oig.
• skilled feale athletes eae sols of the oader march of womanhood out of
the Vitoia doesti sphee ito oe pohiited ale eals Cah
-Skills valued in sport and associated
with men allowed women athletes
(gay and straight alike) access to
gender reconfigurations:
-athletis poided a social space
and practice for reorganizing
conventional meanings of embodied
asuliit ad feiiit Cah
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But ot ithout aklash/isk: sietifi aieties & deates:
-Ati: Could spot uoa its feale athletes ….disupt menstruation and harden
epodutie ogas??? Lead to estual dsfutio, steilit, ifeio offspig
original) ?? Or lead to deviant hypersexuality?
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