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Female Gladiators - Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America (Paperback)
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Female Gladiators - Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America (Paperback)
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Female Gladiators is the first book to examine legal and social
battles over 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. Inspired, women and girls began to
demand access to the contact sports which society had previously
deemed too strenuous or violent for them to play. When the leagues
continued to bar girls simply because they were not boys, the girls
went to court. Sarah K. Fields's Female Gladiators is the only book
to examine the legal and social battles over gender and contact
sport that continue to rage today.
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