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Female gladiators : gender, law, and contact sport in America / Sarah K. Fields.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fields, Sarah K., 1968-
- Series:
- Sport and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports for women--United States--History.
- Sports for women.
- Sports for women--Social aspects--United States.
- Sex discrimination in sports--Law and legislation--United States.
- Sex discrimination in sports.
- Sex discrimination in sports--Law and legislation.
- Sports for women--Social aspects.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 212 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana, Ill. : University of Illinois Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- Female Gladiators is the first book to examine legal and social battles over the right of women to participate with men in contact sport. The impetus to begin legal proceedings was the 1972 enactment of Title IX, which prohibited discrimination in educational settings, but it was the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution and the equal rights amendments of state constitutions that ultimately opened doors. Despite court rulings, however, many in American society resisted - and continue to resist - allowing girls in dugouts and other spaces traditionally defined as male territories. Inspired, women and girls began to demand access to the contact sports which society had previously deemed too strenuous or violent for them to play. When the leagues continued to bar girls simply because they were not boys, the girls went to court. Sarah K. Fields's Female Gladiators is the only book to examine the legal and social battles over gender and contact sport that continue to rage today.
- Contents:
- 1 The History of American Women in Sport, Society, and Law 1
- 2 Baseball 17
- 3 Football 34
- 4 Basketball 55
- 5 Soccer 83
- 6 Wrestling 102
- 7 Boxing 121
- 8 Boys on Girls' Field Hockey Teams 132
- 9 Wrapping Up Contact Sports 154
- Appendix Timeline of Laws and Major Cases 169.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-201) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0252029585
- OCLC:
- 55019471
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