03544cam a2200625 i 4500 1913760031 TxAuBib 20250212120000.0 231222s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023050757 9780374609818 hardcover 0374609810 hardcover (OCoLC)1393204788 TxAuBib rda Waters, Michael, 1997-, author. The other Olympians : fascism, queerness, and the making of modern sports / Michael Waters. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024. viii, 354 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-337) and index. Part I: Triumph -- Part II: Enter the Nazis -- Part III: Surveillance -- Part IV: After Berlin. "The story of the groundbreaking trans athletes and Olympic bureaucrats who set the stage for today's culture wars"-- Provided by publisher. In December 1935, Zdeněk Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women's sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the same time, the celebrated British field athlete Mark Weston, also assigned female at birth, announced that he, too, was a man. Periodicals and radio programs across the world carried the news; both became global celebrities. A few decades later, they were all but forgotten. And in the wake of their transitions, what could have been a push toward equality became instead, through a confluence of bureaucracy, war, and sheer happenstance, the exact opposite: the now all-too-familiar panic around trans, intersex, and gender nonconforming athletes. In The Other Olympians, Michael Waters uncovers, for the first time, the gripping true stories of Koubek, Weston, and other pioneering trans and intersex athletes from their era. With dogged research and cinematic flair, Waters also tracks how International Olympic Committee members ignored Nazi Germany's atrocities in order to pull off the Berlin Games, a partnership that ultimately influenced the IOC's nearly century-long obsession with surveilling and cataloging gender. 20250212. Koubek, Zdeněk, 1913-1986. Weston, Mark, 1905- De Bruyn, Willy. Smętek, Witold, 1910-1983. Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei. fast Olympic athletes Europe. Transgender athletes Europe. Transgender athletes. Intersex athletes Europe. Intersex athletes. Fascism and sports. Sexism in political culture Europe. Antisemitism Europe. LGBTQ+ athletes. homoit LGBTQ+. homoit LGBTQ+ people. homoit LGBTQ+ athletes. homoit Transgender athletes. fast Intersex athletes. fast Olympic athletes. fast Fascism and sports. fast Sexism in political culture. fast Antisemitism. fast Europe. fast Biographies. fast Biographies. fast