Abstract:
This article presents a documentary and bibliographic review of part of the history of femininity management in high-performance sport. In this sense, it is necessary to follow up how the Olympic movement is born. A necessary recap to know where it comes from and how the need to control women’s athletic bodies is structured. With the defense of certain values based on sexual dimorphism, we will understand how science and medicine helped to stabilize biological, social and sports boundaries. But as this knowledge changes, an entire regulatory meshwork is also updated around the eligibility of women in sport. The conduct of the article bets on the interpretation that the protection of the female category in sport was done both through suspicion and by justice, with the language of human rights being increasingly incorporated.
Keywords:
Sports Regulation; Sex/Gender; Femininity