000277393 000__ 02750cam\a22003374a\45e0
000277393 001__ 277393
000277393 005__ 20210513103813.0
000277393 008__ 011101s2002\\\\cau\\\\\\b\\\\001\0\eng\\
000277393 010__ $$a  2001055597
000277393 020__ $$a1893554805 (pbk. : alk. paper)
000277393 020__ $$a189355435X (alk. paper)
000277393 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm48265674
000277393 035__ $$a277393
000277393 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dWSL
000277393 042__ $$apcc
000277393 043__ $$an-us---
000277393 049__ $$aISEA
000277393 05000 $$aGV709.18.U6$$bG38 2002
000277393 08200 $$a796/.082$$221
000277393 1001_ $$aGavora, Jessica.
000277393 24510 $$aTilting the playing field :$$bschools, sports, sex, and Title IX /$$cJessica Gavora.
000277393 250__ $$a1st ed.
000277393 260__ $$aSan Francisco :$$bEncounter Books,$$c2002.
000277393 300__ $$a181 p. ;$$c23 cm.
000277393 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000277393 520__ $$aWhen Congress passed Title IX of the Civil Rights Act in 1972, they seemed to be doing something laudable and also long overdue-prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in America's schools. But thirty years later, a law designed to guarantee equal opportunity has become the most explicit, government-enforced quota regime in America, putting boys and men on the losing side of a battle for athletic and educational opportunity. Jessica Gavora interviewed dozens of leading college athletes, educators and legal experts for this provocative, yet carefully researched book. She argues that the 1999 World Cup victory of the U.S. Women's Soccer team widely seen as a Title IX triumph, was actually the result of a far more profound social revolution that has changed America's mind about sexual roles and female destiny. If anything, Title IX has had a destructive overall effect on all college athletes by killing opportunities to compete. Gavora shows how Title IX sports quotas have caused chaos at schools like Brown University and led directly to the cancellation of some of the most prestigious men's programs in the country-among them Providence College's baseball team, Princeton's wrestling team and the men's swimming and diving program that produced several Olympic champions. But if Title IX has tilted the college playing field, Gavora suggests that its greatest impact on American social life may still lie ahead as the federal bureaucrats, activist judges, and radical feminists who have shaped the statute's interpretation now seek to expand its reach into sexual harassment and other areas of education where boys and girls have to conform to their notion of "gender equity."
000277393 650_0 $$aSports for women$$zUnited States.
000277393 650_0 $$aSex discrimination in sports$$zUnited States.
000277393 650_0 $$aSex discrimination in education$$zUnited States.
000277393 650_0 $$aWomen athletes$$xGovernment policy$$zUnited States.
000277393 85200 $$bgen$$hGV709.18.U6$$iG38$$i2002
000277393 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:277393$$pGLOBAL_SET
000277393 980__ $$aBIB
000277393 980__ $$aBOOK
000277393 994__ $$aE0$$bISE