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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. The subject of web blogs and T-shirt slogans, it is credited with opening the doors to the massive numbers of girls and women now partici...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brake, Deborah L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, ©2010.
Colección:Critical America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Separate is equal?
  • Integration rights : girls playing with boys and boys playing with girls
  • The three-part test and the opportunity to play
  • Complicating equal participation : what counts as a sport, which sports should women play, and which women get to play them?
  • Cutting men's opportunities to help women? : Title IX and leveling down
  • Treatment as an equal
  • The dilemma of difference and the "problem" of pregnancy
  • Beyond equal access : retaliation, coaching, and sexual harassment.