The other Olympians : a true story of gender, fascism and the making of modern sport
Waters, Michael, 1997-2024
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In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women's sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the same time, the celebrated British field athlete Mark Weston, also assigned female at birth, announced that he, too, was a man. Periodicals and radio programs across the world carried the news; both became global celebrities. A few decades later, they were all but forgotten. And in the wake of their transitions, what could have been a push toward equality became instead, through a confluence of bureaucracy, war, and sheer happenstance, the exact opposite: the now all-too-familiar panic around trans, intersex, and gender nonconforming athletes. In 'The Other Olympians', Michael Waters uncovers the gripping true stories of Koubek, Weston, and other pioneering trans and intersex athletes from their era.
Main title:
Author:
Waters, Michael, 1997-, author
Imprint:
London : Ebury Press, 2024.
Collation:
viii, 354 pages ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781529910193 (hbk)
Dewey class:
796.0867094796.086709796.086709 WAT796.086
Language:
English
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BRN:
3790569