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GENDER, ATHLETES’ RIGHTS, AND THE COURT OF ARBITRATION FOR SPORT

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Emerald Studies in Sport and Gender

Series Editor: Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, University of Toronto, Canada

Editorial Board: Doug Booth, University of Otago, New Zealand; Jayne Caudwell, Bournemouth University, UK; Delia Douglas, University of British Columbia, Canada; Janice Forsyth, University of Western Ontario, Canada; Tara Magdalinski, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia; Jaime Schultz, Pennsylvania State University, USA; Heather Sykes, University of Toronto, Canada; Beccy Watson, Leeds Beckett University, UK.

Emerald Studies in Sport and Gender promotes research on two important and related areas within sport studies: women and gender. The concept of gender is included in the series title in order to problematize traditional binary thinking that classifies individuals as male or female, rather than looking at the full gender spectrum. In sport contexts, this is a particularly relevant and controversial issue, for example, in the case of transgender athletes and female athletes with hyperandrogenism. The concept of sport is interpreted broadly to include activities ranging from physical recreation to high-performance sport.

The interdisciplinary nature of the series will encompass social and cultural history and philosophy as well as sociological analyses of contemporary issues. Since any analysis of sport and gender has political implications and advocacy applications, learning from history is essential.

Contributors to the series are encouraged to develop an intersectional analysis where appropriate, by examining how multiple identities, including gender, sexuality, ethnicity, social class and ability, intersect to shape the sport experiences of women and men who are Indigenous, racialized, members of ethnic minorities, LGBTQ, working class, or disabled.

We welcome submissions from both early career and more established researchers.

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GENDER, ATHLETES’ RIGHTS, AND THE COURT OF ARBITRATION FOR SPORT

BY

HELEN JEFFERSON LENSKYJ

University of Toronto, Canada

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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First edition 2018

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to social media, a Twitter post several years ago first drew my attention to the potential shortcomings of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Following up on comments praising CAS decisions, this post raised a key question: has justice been sacrificed in the interests of speed and efficiency? And so, when my colleague Stephen Wagg invited me to contribute to the Journal of Criminological Research Policy and Practice special issue on sport, crime and deviance, I started researching sport exceptionalism, sports law, and CAS. I soon discovered that these topics warranted deeper investigation, resulting in this book. Coincidentally, around the same time, Stephen Wagg and Philippa Grand, Publisher and Head of Social Sciences, Emerald Group Publishing had been discussing a possible book series on gender and sport. I now have the privilege of editing this series, together with a team of accomplished sport scholars, and I am delighted that this volume is the first publication in the series.

Conversations about these issues, online and/or in person, with colleagues and friends Daryl Adair, Janaka Biyanwila, Andrew Byrnes, Nikki Dryden, Janice Forsyth, Kevin Lindgren, Jason Mazanov, Stephen Wagg, Kristen Worley, and many others were invaluable, as were the comments from anonymous reviewers. I am also grateful to the small but growing number of legal scholars, sports lawyers, sociologists, historians, and scientists who have critically examined issues of athletes’ rights and sports law, and whose work has inspired this project. Thanks to Philippa Grand, Rachel Ward, and the editorial team at Emerald Publishing for their commitment to the project. My partner Liz Green provided her usual valuable feedback and expert proofreading. As always, I thank Liz and my children for their love and support.

Note: An earlier version of some sections of the book appeared in the article ‘Sport exceptionalism and the Court of Arbitration for Sport’, Journal of Criminological Research Policy and Practice 4(1), 2018, 5–17.

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