This book presents an interdisciplinary approach to examining gender-related sports dispute resolution by the Court of Arbitration. Identifying complexities around gender, gender binaries, and the ways in which intersecting identities complicate resolutions, the author demonstrate how athletes' rights are threatened by a forced arbitration process.

Helen Jefferson Lenskyj is Professor Emerita at the University of Toronto. Helen began her career as a researcher and advocate for women and sport in 1980. Books on those issues include Out of Bounds: Women, Sport and Sexuality (1986), Out on the Field: Gender, Sport and Sexualities (2003), Gender Politics and the Olympic Industry (2013) and three monographs published by Sport Canada. Her recent publications on the Olympics include Inside the Olympic Industry: Power, Politics and Activism (2000), The Best Olympics Ever? Social Impacts of Sydney 2000 (2002), Olympic Industry Resistance (2008) and The Sochi 2014 Olympics: No More Rainbows (2014).