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Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America (Sport and Society) | 
 enlarge | Author: Sarah K. Fields
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: Reprint
Pages: 232
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 5.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 0252075846
Dewey Decimal Number: 305
EAN: 9780252075841
ASIN: 0252075846
Publication Date: June 25, 2008
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DIVIFemale Gladiators/I 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--allowing girls in dugouts and other spaces traditionally defined as male territories. When the leagues continued to bar girls simply because they were not boys, the girls went to court. Sarah K. Fields examines the legal and cultural conflicts over gender and contact sports that continue to rage today./DIV
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DIViFemale Gladiators/i 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--allowing girls in dugouts and other spaces traditionally defined as male territories. When the leagues continued to bar girls simply because they were not boys, the girls went to court. Sarah K. Fields examines the legal and cultural conflicts over gender and contact sports that continue to rage today./DIV
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Prompts far too many questions February 10, 2008
Eric Cantona (Tx)
Female Gladiators, part legal and social history, documents the beginnings of Title IX. Moreover she examines the schoolgirls who filed lawsuits using Title IX in order to compete in contact sports and the various communities that attempted to resisit female involvement in contact sports. . Although not fully indicative of the atmosphere surrounding Title IX and gender inequality and prompting far more questions than it actually answers, the result remains a decent contribution to gender and sports studies that historians may want to examine. br / She ignores the monster Title IX has created and the detrimental effects its implementation has had on male athletics. Also some of her contentions seem quite speculative, particularly in regards to boxing. She ignores the fact that many may view female boxers as a spectacle rather than a true sporting event. She attempts to address this issue but also seems equally determined to discount its importance. br / Just as problematic is the apparent naivete Fields holds for the changes in the American sporting landscape due to Title IX. She seems to believe that cultural change should occur far swifter than it has. Fields asserts, especially concerning football, that opposition to female participation remains very high. For the author, this appears a travesty. Cultural changes transpire slowly, especially in sporting practices. Fields, however, ignores this concept and despite the massive progress Title IX has made seemingly believes that football, America's true sporting passion, should be far more open to female participation than it is. br / Fields could have but chose not to ascertain the motivations of those that challenged discriminatory sporting practices. Why did girls want to play these sports? Did they want to play with the boys because they had grown up playing with the boys? Were they pushed into playing or attempting to participate in certain sports by overzealous fathers? Did they wish to garner attention? While these questions may not be entirely pertinent to her foremost focus, they would offer a better understanding of the individuals challenging unfair sporting practices and thus furthering Title IX's enforcement. Moreover, Fields ignores the (arguable) harm Title IX has brought to male athletics. Forced to provide equitable scholarships across the athletic board, many universities choose to drop certain male sports rather than begin new female sports. Again, this is not the primary point of her work, but it certainly cannot be ignored in any Title IX discussion. Despite its flaws and weaknesses, the text does a good job documenting the beginnings of Title IX. Moreover, the work illustrates how Title IX eventually enforced equal sporting access for females and manifested into the nightmare that many male athletic directors continue to fear and resent at present.
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