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Book SynopsisEqual Play; Title IX and Social Change collects the best, up-to-date scholarship, court cases, and other useful materials showing how the governmental processes have influenced the implementation of one of the country's most important social goals: equality in athletics.
Trade Review“[A] good primer on [Title IX’s] history and struggles…the authors clearly spell out the periodic backlashes to Title IX as well as its victories.”
—Michele Kort, Ms.
Table of ContentsEqual Play:
Title IX and Social Change
Edited by:
Nancy Hogshead-Makar and Andrew Zimbalist
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Nancy Hogshead-Makar and Andrew Zimbalist
Part I
Introduction: Women's Sports Before Title IX
Nancy Hogshead-Makar and Andrew Zimbalist
Coming on Strong, Gender and Sexuality in Twentieth Century Sports
Susan Cahn
Heroines As Well As Heroes
Welch Suggs
Didrikson was a Woman Ahead of Her Time
Larry Schwartz
Sport is Unfair to Women
Bil Gilbert and Nancy Williamson
Part II
Introduction: Staking a Claim: The First Decade
Nancy Hogshead-Makar and Andrew Zimbalist
Speech of Senator Birch Bayh
New York Women's Political Caucus New York, November 23, 1975
Amendment to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972
Statement of Hon. Birch Bayh, a U.S. Senator from the State of Indiana on the Tower Amendment
Javits Amendment
passed May 20, 1974
Provision Relating to Sex Discrimination
1975 Title IX Regulations
A Policy Interpretation: Title IX and Intercollegiate Athletics
United States District Court, D. Kansas.
NATIONAL COLLEGIATE ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff, v. Joseph CALIFANO, Secretary of the United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Defendant, et al.; Decided Jan. 9, 1978
Supreme Court of the United States
Geraldine G. CANNON, Petitioner, v. UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO et al.; Decided May 14, 1979
Part III
Introduction: The Initial Backlash: the 1980s
Nancy Hogshead-Makar and Andrew Zimbalist
Supreme Court of the United States
GROVE CITY COLLEGE, Individually and on Behalf of its Students, et al., Petitioners v. Terrel H. BELL, Secretary of Education, et al.; Decided Feb. 28, 1984.
Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987
Reducing the Commercialization of Intercollegiate Athletics
Gary R. Roberts
Part IV
Introduction: Accelerated Pace: the 1990s
Nancy Hogshead-Makar and Andrew Zimbalist
Testing Title IX: Amy Cohen and Brown University
Andrew Zimbalist
United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.
Amy COHEN, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BROWN UNIVERSITY, et al., Defendants-Appellants; Decided Nov. 21, 1996.
1996 Clarification of Intercollegiate Athletics Policy Guidance: The Three-Part Test
Bowling Green Letter
Linda Carpenter and Vivian Acosta, “Women in Intercollegiate Sport: A Longitudinal, National Study, 1977-2006”
Stronger Women
Mariah Burton Nelson
Part V
Introduction: The Second Backlash: 2000-2006
Nancy Hogshead-Makar and Andrew Zimbalist
United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.
NATIONAL WRESTLING COACHES ASSOCIATION, et al., Appellants, v. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, Appellee.; Decided May 14, 2004.
Tilting THE Playing Field: Schools, Sports, Sex and Title IX
Jessica Gavora
A Critique of Tilting the Playing Field: Schools, Sports, Sex and Title IX
Nancy Hogshead-Makar
“What To Do About Title IX”
Testimony Before Secretary Paige's Commission on Title IX
Andrew Zimbalist
Open to All: Title IX at Thirty
Minority Views on the Report of the Commission on Opportunity in Athletics
Donna de Varona and Julie Foudy
Limitations of the Department of Education's Online Survey Method for Measuring Athletic Interest and Ability on U.S.A. Campuses
Don Sabo and Christine Grant
Bush Administration Uses Stealth Tactics to Subvert Title IX
Andrew Zimbalist
Football Is a Sucker's Game
Michael Sokolove
Title IX by the Numbers
Andrew Zimbalist
