A Place on the Team : : The Triumph and Tragedy of Title IX /

A Place on the Team : : The Triumph and Tragedy of Title IX / / Welch Suggs.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Suggs, Welch,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2006]
©2005
Year of Publication:2006
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 2 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Segregated History of College Sports
  • 2. A New Paradigm of Civil Rights
  • 3. Heroines as Well as Heroes
  • 4. College Sports and Civil Rights
  • 5. Legal and Logistical Challenges
  • 6. The First Generation
  • 7. A Watershed Moment
  • 8. Clarifications amid Controversy
  • 9. Sports before College
  • 10. The Wrestlers' Response
  • 11. The Tragedy
  • 12. Triumph?
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Landmark Title IX Lawsuits
  • Index

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