The other Olympians : fascism, queerness, and the making of modern sports

Title The other Olympians : fascism, queerness, and the making of modern sports
Names Waters, Michael.
Book Number DB126355
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Books
Annotation "In 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. In 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."-- From publisher. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Narrator Pickens, Jennifer.
Local Subject Current Talking Book Topics - TBT
Athletic & outdoor sports & games - 796
Biography and Autobiography - BIO
Biography - Historical - BIH
Biography - Sports - BIS
Sports & Recreation - SPO
Transgender Interest - TGR
Exclusion - Female Narrator - FN
Exclusion - Short Book - SH
LC Subject Olympic athletes - Europe
Transgender athletes - Europe
Intersex athletes - Europe
Fascism and sports
Sexism in political culture - Europe
Antisemitism - Europe
Biographies
Informational works
Nonfiction
Call Number 796.0867094 ANF
Language English
Original Publication Reissue of: 2024 9781250350756 2024
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