Binding: Hardcover
Description: Named a Most Anticipated Book by Esquire Town & Country and Electric Literature" Michael 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 The story of the early trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who lit the flame for today's culture wars. In December 1935, Zden k 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. Immersive 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.
Title: The Other Olympians Fascism Queerness And The Making Of Modern Sports
Author(s): Waters Michael
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374609818
Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/4/2024