Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America
Sarah K. Fields
ISBN: | 9780252091209 |
Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
Published: | 1 October, 2010 |
Format: | eBook - EPUB |
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Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America
Sarah K. Fields
Female Gladiators examines the legal and social history of the right of women to participate with men in contact sports. 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-allowin
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