Kinesiology 2250A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pierre De Coubertin, Shot Put, Femininity

• School: Western University
• Department: Kinesiology
• Course: Kinesiology 2250A/B
• Professor: Michael Heine

Document Summary

Sports and gender constructions of femaleness/femininity: social determinants: things that we are born into the world with and we cannot control how people will react to our determinants. We will refer to biology as the chromosomes that separate us from males and females. We will refer to gender by how we get treated for being a male or female. Biological sex: refers to the biological differences between males and females. Female high performance athletes need to go to the hormone lab just like black athletes: we cannot be gender neutral, by just reading men and women counts. Images, ideas and symobls traditionally defined as belonging to the male gender: femininity. To the fe(cid:373)ale ge(cid:374)der: definitions change, an object of struggles and contestations. Case 9: backgrouns female frailty 1812: an exercise which allowably beneficial to the health when practices in the proper place. Losses that merit when a girl moutns lodty and intdedangerous swing just after leaving a warm tree.