Unisex sports: challenging the binary

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00948705.2020.1768861" target="_blank" >10.1080/00948705.2020.1768861</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Unisex sports: challenging the binary

Original language description

This paper addresses some problems arising with respect to the male/female binary division that has traditionally been central to most sports. One strategy for dealing with this problem is to remove the binary and allow athletes of different sexes to compete together. Firstly, since there are different ways of &apos;mixing&apos; athletes together, a distinction between two major kinds will be introduced: &apos;mixed sports&apos; (sports with an allocated position for a number of malesandfemalesinateam,whichretainsthebinary)and&apos;unisexsports&apos;(sport participation of all athletes together based on merit, with no need to distinguish between sexes). Secondly, I shall offer a strategy for the modification of existing sports and the creation of new sports that would accommodate athletes of different sexes in &apos;unisex sports&apos;. This means paying attention to howsportsareconstructedandwhichabilities/skillstheytest.Forunisexsports, two kinds of logic are suggested: &apos;balance of abilities/skills logic&apos; proposes that we should seek a balance of what we presently understand as female and male (together with sex-neutral) abilities/skills to be included in the sporting challenge; whereas &apos;complexity logic&apos; proposes the creation or modification of sports so as to test for a wider spectrum of abilities/skills.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30306 - Sport and fitness sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

JOURNAL OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF SPORT [online]

ISSN

1543-2939

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

47

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

248-265

UT code for WoS article

000541349700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85086439989