Female Gladiators

Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America

By: Sarah K. Fields

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Paperback | 14 August 2008

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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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''The first book to examine the legal and social battles that won women the right to participate with men in contact sports.'' Black Issues in Higher Education ''A compelling study... A sound, grounded, meticulous, and careful reading of a thorny and heated issue.'' Aethlon: Journal of Sport Literature ''Highly recommended.'' Choice

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Sociology Sociology & Sport & Leisure Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls Laws of Specific Jurisdictions

Preface	p. vii
The History of American Women in Sport, Society, and Law	p. 1
Baseball	p. 17
Football	p. 34
Basketball	p. 55
Soccer	p. 83
Wrestling	p. 102
Boxing	p. 121
Boys on Girls' Field Hockey Teams	p. 132
Wrapping Up Contact Sports	p. 154
Timeline of Laws and Major Cases	p. 169
Notes	p. 173
Index	p. 203
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Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America

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