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Category [videorecording] : woman / written & directed by Phyllis Ellis.

Ellis, Phyllis, (film director,, screenwriter.). Proximity Films, (film distributor.). Caster Semenya. (Cast).

Summary:

"When 18-year-old South African runner Caster Semenya burst onto the world stage in 2009, her championship was not celebrated, but instead launched a series of increasingly invasive public attacks, exposing her personal medical records via the international media, and stirring relentless debates on her "legitimacy" as an athlete and as a woman. Using women's naturally varying androgen levels to evaluate their performance advantages, the sporting institution World Athletics create new rules declaring certain female athletes must medically alter their healthy bodies to compete in their sport. Category: Woman focuses on four athletes from the Global South who are targeted and forced out of competition by these regulations, and explores the devastation both to their bodies and their private lives. Filmmaker and former Olympian Phyllis Ellis exposes an industry controlled by men that puts women's lives at risk and raises issues of racism, sexism, and the right to determine another persons' biological sex."

Record details

  • Physical Description: 1 videodisc (76 minutes) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches
  • Publisher: Toronto, ON : Proximity Films, 2022.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Title from container.
Participant or Performer Note:
Caster Semenya.
Target Audience Note:
E.
System Details Note:
DVD.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
For private home use only.
Language Note:
Audio track in English, Hindi, Swahili, with optional subtitles in English, captions in English.
Subject: Semenya, Caster, 1991-
Androgens.
Runners (Sports) > Sex differences.
Sex discrimination in sports.
Women athletes > Physiology.
Women's rights.
Genre: Biographical films.
Documentary films.
Personal narratives.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Cookstown Branch DVD 796.42082 Semen-C 31681010341600 NFDVD Available -


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