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A place on the team : the triumph and tragedy of Title IX /
A Place on the Team is the inside story of how Title IX revolutionized American sports. The federal law guaranteeing women's rights in education, Title IX opened gymnasiums and playing fields to millions of young women previously locked out. Journalist Welch Suggs chronicles both the law's...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | A Place on the Team is the inside story of how Title IX revolutionized American sports. The federal law guaranteeing women's rights in education, Title IX opened gymnasiums and playing fields to millions of young women previously locked out. Journalist Welch Suggs chronicles both the law's successes and failures-the exciting opportunities for women as well as the commercial and recruiting pressures of modern-day athletics. Enlivened with tales from Suggs's reportage, the book clears up the muddle of interpretation and opinion surrounding Title IX. It provides not only a lucid description of ho. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 283 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-266) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400826544 1400826543 9780691128856 0691128855 1282159194 9781282159198 9786612159190 6612159197 9780691117690 0691117691 |