Testing for Athlete Citizenship

"With sophisticated analysis and descriptive prose, Testing for Athlete Citizenship offers provocative arguments. Author Kathryn Henne breaks new ground in showing that testing practices are not just about catching 'cheaters,' but are implicated in corporal, gendered, economic, and postcolonial ideologies."

~Mary G. McDonald, Homer C. Rice Chair in Sports and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology

"A masterpiece of hybrid governance. This book chronicles with nuance the entire global history of a regulatory regime, yet through a micro lens, through the eyes and bodies of colonized athletes. A landmark of gendered and racialized problematics of fair play."

~John Braithwaite, Distinguished Professor at the Australian National University

"Even though anti-doping regulation and gender verification testing were not implemented until the late 1960s, the ways in which Henne demonstrates how the definition of athlete citizenship these practices circumscribed embedded older notions of ideal athleticism suggest her conceptualization of athletes as a specific caste of citizens could intriguingly influence scholars of sport studying a range of time periods."

~Sport in American History

"Henne expands beyond an examination of doping control and looks more broadly at other forms of biomedicalized surveillance."

~Journal of Sport History

"In Testing for Athlete Citizenship, Henne achieves a difficult task in providing a compelling, thought-provoking analysis of an intangible gate-keeping structure in sport, based on the concept of ‘athlete citizenship.’"

~Sport, Ethics and Philosophy

"In Testing for Athlete Citizenship Henne achieves a difficult task in providing a compelling, thought-provoking analysis of an intangible gate-keeping structure in sport, based on the concept of ‘athlete citizenship.’"

~Sport, Ethics and Philosophy