Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America

Cover Art for 9780252091209, Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America by Sarah K. Fields
ISBN: 9780252091209
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1 October, 2010
Format: eBook - EPUB
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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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