ABSTRACT
There have been many different kinds of papers written about doping in sport. It is only relatively recently that questions have been asked about what effects doping bans have had (Black 1996; Black and Pape 1997; Burke 1998; Burke and Roberts 1997; Burke and Symons 1999; Davis and Delano 1992). Besides attempting, but clearly failing, to stop drug use in sport, the doping ban has been shown to have better success in promoting a sex or gender order (Burke 1998; Burke and Roberts 1997; Burke and Symons 1999; Davis and Delano, 1992). Like Burke and Roberts (1997), I contend that, by looking at examples of women who are disliked for similar reasons to female dopers, we can appreciate why doping harshly grates on some people’s sensibilities. Parallels, then, will be drawn between female dopers, ‘unattractive’ women, and lesbians, because they are all disliked for how they contravene heterosexual femininity. This analysis builds upon those that suggest that the doping ban functions to promote a sex/gender order, and it asserts that this social order is distinctly heterosexual.
