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Gendered Implications of Olympic and the Paralympic Events

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Female Olympian and Paralympian Events

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This introductory chapter contains a brief background to women’s participation in the Olympic Games and the role of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), a description of my underlying theory of Gendered Critical Discourse Analysis (GCDA), a review of the literature relative to events in which female Olympians and Paralympians participate, and a listing of some “firsts” in the field.

Women have but one task, that of crowning the winner with garlands.

—Baron Pierre de Coubertin, Revue Olympique (1912)

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Fuller, L.K. (2018). Gendered Implications of Olympic and the Paralympic Events. In: Female Olympian and Paralympian Events. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76792-5_1

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