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Tilting the playing field schools, sports, sex, and Title IX /

When 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gavora, Jessica
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : Encounter Books, 2002.
Edition:1st ed.
Physical Description:
181 pages ; 24 cm.
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Contents:
  • The stronger women get, the more they hate feminism
  • Numbers game
  • Field of nightmares
  • If you build it, they will come: the Brown decision
  • Playing doctor with the law: Title IX and sexual harassment
  • Sexual selection
  • Why can't a woman be more like a man?
  • Leveling the playing field.