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With sharp wit and keen insight, Bonnie J. Morris opens new
perspectives on the gender and generation gaps on campus, exploring
the negative stereotypes that keep many students from taking
women's studies courses. Since 1993, the George Washington
University women's history professor has traveled the globe with
her one-woman play, "Revenge of the Women's Studies Professor,"
engaging audiences from New Zealand to New York in a frank
conversation about the backlash against feminism and women's
studies. This book presents scenes from the original play along
with reflections on changing views of gender and sexuality in
American society, politics, and popular culture. The result is part
memoir, part history of our times, and part critique of higher
education.
Who is the first female athlete you admired? Were male and female
athletes treated differently in your high school? Is there a
natural limit to women's athletic ability? How has Title IX opened
up opportunities for women athletes? Every semester since 1996,
Bonnie Morris has encouraged students to confront questions like
these in one of the most provocative college courses in America:
Athletics and Gender, A History of Women's Sports. What's the
Score?, Morris's energetic teaching memoir, is a peek inside that
class and features a decades-long dialogue with student athletes
about the greater opportunities for women-on the playing field, as
coaches, and in sports media. From corsets to segregated
schoolyards to the WNBA, we find women athletes the world over
conquering unique barriers to success. What's the Score? is not
only an insider's look at sports education but also an engaging
guide to turning points in women's sports history that everyone
should know.
Oprah's book club has declared The Feminist Revolution a must-read
for Women's History Month. The Feminist Revolution offers an
overview of women's struggle for equal rights in the late twentieth
century. Beginning with the auspicious founding of the National
Organization for Women in 1966, at a time when women across the
world were mobilizing individually and collectively in the fight to
assert their independence and establish their rights in society,
the book traces a path through political campaigns, protests, the
formation of women's publishing houses and groundbreaking
magazines, and other events that shaped women's history. It
examines women's determination to free themselves from definition
by male culture, wanting not only to 'take back the night' but also
to reclaim their bodies, their minds, and their cultural identity.
It demonstrates as well that the feminist revolution was enacted by
women from all backgrounds, of every color, and of all ages and
that it took place in the home, in workplaces, and on the streets
of every major town and city. This sweeping overview of the key
decades in the feminist revolution also brings together for the
first time many of these women's own unpublished stories, which
together offer tribute to the daring, humor, and creative spirit of
its participants.
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