Getting in the Game : Title IX and the Women's Sports Revolution.
Title IX, a landmark federal statute enacted in 1972 to prohibit sex discrimination in education, has worked its way into American culture as few other laws have. It is an iconic law, the subject of web blogs and T-shirt slogans, and is widely credited with opening the doors to the massive numbers o...
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2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Feminism of Title IX; 1 Separate Is Equal?; 2 Integration Rights: Girls Playing with Boys and Boys Playing with Girls; 3 The Three-Part Test and the Opportunity to Play; 4 Complicating Equal Participation: What Counts as a Sport, Which Sports Should Women Play, and Which Women Should Play Them?; 5 Cutting Men's Opportunities to Help Women? Title IX and Leveling Down; 6 Treatment as an Equal; 7 The Dilemma of Difference and the "Problem" of Pregnancy; 8 Beyond Equal Access: Retaliation, Coaching, and Sexual Harassment; Conclusion; Notes.
- Selected BibliographyIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; About the Author.