Intersectional Ignorance in Women's Sport. Pape, M. In Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies. Routledge, 2 edition, 2022. Num Pages: 10abstract bibtex In this chapter, I explore how the regulatory valorization of science be conceptualized as a form of ignorance that is intersectionally constituted and generates intersectional harms. I examine this in the context of international track-and-field, where the regulation of women athletes with naturally high testosterone levels has overwhelmingly impacted women of color from Global South nations. Given the uneven impacts of this regulatory regime, how do sports governing bodies succeed in defining this issue as one that ought to be decided on the basis of (a certain kind of) science alone? I show how this involves a double move: first, eliding a more complex account of how and to what extent testosterone defines women’s athletic ability, and second, diminishing the significance of the harms inflicted upon affected athletes. I suggest that this second move relies upon the racialized and geopolitical constitution of gender difference in international sport, which sports governing bodies deny via its designation as “unscientific.” I consider how the ascendancy of a clean scientific narrative of binary sex difference relies on wider institutional arrangements and a sporting culture that also avoids deeper engagement with the question of how and upon whom existing regulations inflict harm.
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