Getting in the Game: Title IX and the Women's Sports Revolution

Author:   Deborah L. Brake
Publisher:   New York University Press
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9780814760390


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   20 August 2012
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Deborah L. Brake
Publisher:   New York University Press
Imprint:   New York University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9780814760390


ISBN 10:   0814760392
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   20 August 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"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 Bibliography Index About the Author"

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An interesting, exciting project that offers fresh perspectives on an area of the law that is generally misunderstood ... fascinating and well done. Ann C. McGinley, William S. Boyd Professor of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas Getting in the Game provides a masterful overview of what it would take to really level the playing field for women in sports. This book is indispensable reading for anyone who cares about gender equity in athletics. -Deborah L. Rhode, author of Speaking of Sex: The Denial of Gender Inequality Getting in the Game offers clearheaded demystification of the debates over gender equity in the U.S. school and college sports. Without falling into the role of uncritical cheerleader, Deborah Brake shows how the successes of Title IX result from its pragmatic knitting-together of various strands of feminist legal theory. The result is a body of law sturdy enough to press effectively for equal opportunity, but flexible enough to allow for the nuances of difference. Whether one's concern is with inferior sport facilities for high school girls, cutbacks to certain college men's sports, or women athletes and pregnancy, Getting in the Game is a must-read. Michael A. Messner, author of It's All for the Kids: Gender, Families, and Youth Sports Getting in the Game is must reading for those seeking to understand both the monumental success of Title IX and the dilemmas and barriers that impeded achievement of its full promise. There is no better treatment of the subject of women's sports - why it matters, what Title IX now requires, and how the law might be improved. This book will change the way we think about equality in women's sports, and help us to think more rigorously and creatively about how to achieve it. Katharine T. Bartlett, Duke University School of Law


<p> Getting in the Game is must reading for those seeking to understand both the monumental success of Title IX and the dilemmas and barriers that impeded achievement of its full promise. There is no better treatment of the subject of women's sports--why it matters, what Title IX now requires, and how the law might be improved. This book will change the way we think about equality in women's sports, and help us to think more rigorously and creatively about how to achieve it. -Katharine T. Bartlett, Duke University School of Law


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Deborah L. Brake is Professor of Law and distinguished faculty scholar at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.

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