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A Place on the Team: The Triumph and Tragedy of Title IX
Welch Suggs
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Description for A Place on the Team: The Triumph and Tragedy of Title IX
Paperback. A story of how Title IX revolutionized American sports. This book chronicles both the law's successes and failures - the exciting opportunities for women as well as the commercial and recruiting pressures of modern-day athletics. It provides the first history of the law's evolution since its passage in 1972. Num Pages: 296 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; WS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 457.
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 successes and failures-the exciting opportunities for women as well as the commercial and recruiting pressures of modern-day athletics. Enlivened with tales from Suggs's reportage, the book clears up the muddle of interpretation and opinion surrounding Title IX. It provides not only a lucid description of how courts and colleges have read (and misread) the ... Read more
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 successes and failures-the exciting opportunities for women as well as the commercial and recruiting pressures of modern-day athletics. Enlivened with tales from Suggs's reportage, the book clears up the muddle of interpretation and opinion surrounding Title IX. It provides not only a lucid description of how courts and colleges have read (and misread) the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691128856
SKU
V9780691128856
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About Welch Suggs
Welch Suggs is associate director of the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics and is also pursuing a Ph.D. in education policy at the University of Georgia. He is the former senior editor for athletics at the "Chronicle of Higher Education", and has written about sports for the "Kansas City Star" and "Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal".
Reviews for A Place on the Team: The Triumph and Tragedy of Title IX
Finalist for the 2006 Billie Award in Journalism, Women's Sport Foundation Honorable Mention for the 2006 Myers Outstanding Book Award "[A] must-read for any sports historian or female athlete interested in how the opportunities she so freely enjoys came about."
Publishers Weekly "Ultimately a gripping story of Title IX's triumph."
Harvard Law Review "Finally, a lucid, thorough and non-polemical accounting of Title ... Read more
Publishers Weekly "Ultimately a gripping story of Title IX's triumph."
Harvard Law Review "Finally, a lucid, thorough and non-polemical accounting of Title ... Read more