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Title IX A Brief History with Documents

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ISBN-10: 031244575X

ISBN-13: 9780312445751

Edition: 2007

Authors: Susan Ware

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Title IX represents a watershed in the history of girls' and women's education. In 1971, the year before Title IX was passed, fewer than 295,000 high school girls and 30,000 college women participated in their schools' athletic programs. By 2001, those numbers had increased to 2.8 million and 150,000, respectively. Through this rich collection of documents, Susan Ware shows how athletics, once viewed as a privilege, came to be seen as a right. In her introduction, she examines Title IX within the broader social and legislative history of the late twentieth century, providing her readers with a clear account of the changes taking place in educational institutions and in athletics more…    
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Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Bedford/Saint Martin's
Publication date: 7/5/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

Introduction: Title IX: Thirty-Seven Words that Changed American Sports
The Passage and Early Years of Title IX
Women's Sports in Historical Perspective
Stalemate and New Challenges
Toward Gender Equity
Unintended Consequences and Unfinished Agendas
The Documents
The Back Story
"Too Strong for a Woman" -- The Five Words That Created Title IX, 1997
Sport is Unfair to Women, May 28, 1973
The Early Years of Title IX
Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Draft Regulations for Interscholastic and Intercollegiate Athletics, June 20, 1974
Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Regulations on Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Sex, June 4, 1975
U.S. Senate, Hearings before the Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, September 16 and 18, 1975
Football: It Pays the Bills, Son, October 5, 1975
Competitive Athletics: In Search of Equal Opportunity, 1976
Joni Barnett and the Yale Women's Crew, Yale Women's Crew Strips in Title IX Protest, March 1976
Project on Equal Education Rights, Stalled at the Start: Government Action on Sex Bias in the Schools, 1978
Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Policy Interpretation: Title IX and Intercollegiate Athletics, December 11, 1979
Thank Title IX for Some of That Gold, August 5, 1984
An Increasingly Polarized Debate
Cohen et al. v. Brown University, December 22, 1992
Winning a Losing Battle, 1992
National Collegiate Athletic Association, Final Report of the NCAA Gender-Equity Task Force, July 26, 1993
One Woman's Fight for Gender Equity in Sport, 2002
U.S. House of Representatives, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education, Training, and Life-long Learning of the Committee on Economic and Educational Opportunities, May 9, 1995
High School Athletes Talk about Gender Equity, 1998
A Conservative Critique of Title IX, 2002
Title IX and American Culture
A Women-centered View of Sport, 1986
Female Athletes and the Game of Life, 2001
Women's Sports Foundation, Title IX and Race in Intercollegiate Sport, 2003
Title IX Has Done Little for Minority Female Athletes, November 30, 2001
Homophobia in Women's Sports, 1997
National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education, Title IX at 30: Report Card on Gender Equity, 2002
Cheers for Title IX, June 22, 2005
Appendixes
A Chronology of Title IX and Related Events (1964-2005)
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index