The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports - Michael Waters

Descriere The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports - Michael Waters

\nNamed one of the Best Books of 2024 by The New Yorker, NPR and BookPage \n \nMichael Waters performs an Olympian act of storytelling, using the stories of these extraordinary athletes to explore in brilliant detail the struggle for understanding and equality. --Jonathan Eig, author of King: A Life, winner of the Pulitzer Prize \n \nThe story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today's culture wars. \n \nIn December 1935, Zdeněk 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. \n \nIn The Other Olympians, Michael Waters uncovers, for the first time, the gripping true stories of Koubek, Weston, and other pioneering trans and intersex athletes from their era. With dogged research and cinematic flair, Waters also tracks how International Olympic Committee members ignored Nazi Germany's atrocities in order to pull off the Berlin Games, a partnership that ultimately influenced the IOC's nearly century-long obsession with surveilling and cataloging gender. \n \nImmersive and revelatory, The Other Olympians is a groundbreaking, hidden-in-the-archives marvel, an inspiring call for equality, and an essential contribution toward understanding the contemporary culture wars over gender in sports.\n

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9781250390479

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