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Dr. Kaatrina Karkazis Lecture
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| "Too fast to be women: Examining eligibility for elite female athletes." |
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Tuesday October 9, 2012
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7:00 p.m. |
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Diamond
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Lecture |
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| Event Description: |
Dr. Katrina Karkazis is an anthropologist and bioethicist at the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Stanford.
Dr. Karkazis’ research addresses the social and cultural dimensions of gender and sexuality, particularly in the realm of biomedicine and science, as well as a range of cultural and social aspects of disease and illness, treatment practices, health policy; the biomedicalization of difference; and social movements around health. Her book Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience (Duke 2008) examines these issues in the context of controversies over treatment for people with intersex traits.
Her most recent work, and the topic of her presentation at Colby, examines "gender verification" of elite female athletes (e.g., the Olympics and the International Association of Athletics Federations). Her work on this topic has appeared in the American Journal of Bioethics as well as news and international media coverage in the New York Times, The Guardian, New Scientist, and Discover.
Sponsored by Anthropology, Gender and Sexual Diversity Program/Pugh Center, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Program, Athletics, and Biology. |
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