Invisible Seasons: Title IX and the Fight for Equity in College Sports (Sports and Entertainment) - Softcover

Belanger, Kelly

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ISBN 10: 0815634706 ISBN 13: 9780815634706

Verlag: Syracuse University Press, 2016

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"A fascinating and well-told story, written in a smooth and engaging style. The subtle rhetorical analysis woven into the story allows the work to blur the boundaries of sport history and communication; it is an exemplar of how the two fields should be interconnected."-Sarah K. Fields, University of Colorado, Denver.

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In 1979, a group of women athletes at Michigan State University, their civil rights attorney, the institution's Title IX coordinator, and a close circle of college students used the law to confront a powerful institution-their own university. By the mid-1970s, opposition from the NCAA had made intercollegiate athletics the most controversial part of Title IX, the 1972 federal law prohibiting discrimination in all federally funded education programs and activities. At the same time, some of the most motivated, highly skilled women athletes in colleges and universities could no longer tolerate the long-standing differences between men's and women`s separate but obviously unequal sports programs. In Invisible Seasons, Belanger recalls the remarkable story of how the MSU women athletes helped change the landscape of higher education athletics. They learned the hard way that even groundbreaking civil rights laws are not self-executing. This behind-the?scenes look at a university sports program challenges us all to think about what it really means to put equality into practice, especially in the money-driven world of college sports.

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• Verlag: Syracuse University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0815634706
• ISBN 13: 9780815634706
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 504