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Caster Semenya, a South African female track and field star from rural Limpopo South Africa, won the IAAF 2009 World Championships in the 800-meter event. She was then subjected to "gender-verification" testing. Media reports, especially in the United States, underscored that Semenya underwent gender-verification testing because of her "deep voice, muscular build, and rapid improvement in times." Combining content and textual analysis, we conducted a comparative media analysis of the Caster Semenya controversy in the United States and the South African print news media. Results demonstrated that the United States print media coverage framed the controversy in terms of Semenya's "true" sex, "medicalized" debates about sex testing, and discussed the limitations of medical assessment of male and female bodies in sport. In comparison, South African print media sources focused on human rights, nationalism, and "strategic essentialism" to frame Semenya as a "true" woman defending the nation against a perceived racist assault. We conclude the article with transformative visions of sport rooted in postcolonial feminism and critical feminist studies.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Cooky, Cheryl / Messner, Michael A. -- Part I. Sport, Gender, and Sexuality -- 1. Gender Ideologies, Youth Sports, and the Production of Soft Essentialism / Messner, Michael A. -- 2. Policing the Boundaries of Sex A Critical Examination of Gender Verification and the Caster Semenya Controversy / Cooky, Cheryl / Dworkin, Shari L. -- 3. Gender Relations and Sport Local, National, Transnational / Messner, Michael A. -- 4. Women, Sports, and Activism / Cooky, Cheryl -- Part II. Sport as Gendered Practice -- 5. Barbie Girls versus Sea Monsters. Children Constructing Gender / Messner, Michael A. -- 6. "Girls Just Aren't Interested" The Social Construction of Interest in Girls' Sport / Cooky, Cheryl -- 7. Ready for Anything the World Gives Her? A Critical Look at Sports- Based Positive Youth Development for Girls / Rauscher, Lauren / Cooky, Cheryl -- 8. Separating the Men from the Moms. The Making of Adult Gender Segregation in Youth Sports / Messner, Michael A. / Bozada-Deas, Suzel -- 9. Gender and Sport Participation in Montenegro / Cooky, Cheryl / Begovic, Marko / Sabo, Don / Oglesby, Carole A. / Snyder, Marj -- Part III. The Gender of Sports Media -- 10. "It's Dude Time!" A Quarter Century of Excluding Women's Sports in Televised News and Highlight Shows / Cooky, Cheryl / Messner, Michael A. / Musto, Michela -- 11 Reflections on Communication and Sport. On Men and Masculinities / Messner, Michael A. -- 12. It's Not about the Game Don Imus, Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Media / Cooky, Cheryl / Wachs, Faye L. / Messner, Michael A. / Dworkin, Shari L. -- 13. "What Makes a Woman a Woman?" versus "Our First Lady of Sport" A Comparative Analysis of the United States and the South African Media Coverage of Caster Semenya / Cooky, Cheryl / Dycus, Ranissa / Dworkin, Shari L. -- About the Authors -- About the Contributors -- Index