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Christine Battersby, The Phenomenal Woman: Feminist Metaphysics and the Patterns of Identity Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 19 (4): 241-244. 1999.
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35Not Forgetting Sex: Simon on Gender EqualityJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 43 (1): 75-82. 2016.
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46Gender Roles RollSport, Ethics and Philosophy 7 (2): 245-258. 2013.Roller derby, once known for scripted theatricality that made it more like a stage play than a sport, has reinvented itself as a legitimate athletic endeavour. Since its rebirth as the Women's Flat Track Derby Association in the early 2000s, it has experienced exponential growth, from 30 flat track derby leagues in 2005 to more than 450 leagues in 2010. This translates to more than 15,000 skaters worldwide. Roller derby provides a unique case of a women's sport that is not derived from, or a dim…Read more
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46Racers, Pacers, Gender and Records: On the Meaning of Sport Competition and CompetitorsSport, Ethics and Philosophy 8 (2): 172-190. 2014.This paper examines footraces that are paced and unpaced, and runners who are pre-arranged, designated pacers and those who are not. Although pacesetting is commonplace in footraces today, the practice challenges our conception of sport competition, the nature of competitors and the meaning of records. For example, Bale calls paced races as ‘staged experiments’ to set world records and argues that pacers were crucial in the running career of Roger Bannister. In 2011, the International Associatio…Read more
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46Mercy Killing: Sportsmanship and BlowoutsJournal of the Philosophy of Sport 37 (1): 60-68. 2010.No abstract
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