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UNINA9910460023703321 |
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Brake Deborah L |
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Getting in the game [[electronic resource] ] : Title IX and the women's sports revolution / / Deborah L. Brake |
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New York, : New York University Press, 2010 |
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0-8147-8979-X |
0-8147-8712-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (298 p.) |
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Sex discrimination in sports - Law and legislation - United States |
Women athletes - Legal status, laws, etc - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Feminism of Title IX -- 1 Separate Is Equal? -- 2 Integration Rights: Girls Playing with Boys and Boys Playing with Girls -- 3 The Three-Part Test and the Opportunity to Play -- 4 Complicating Equal Participation: What Counts as a Sport, Which Sports Should Women Play, and Which Women Should Play Them? -- 5 Cutting Men’s Opportunities to Help Women? Title IX and Leveling Down -- 6 Treatment as an Equal -- 7 The Dilemma of Difference and the “Problem” of Pregnancy -- 8 Beyond Equal Access: Coaching, and Sexual Harassment -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
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Title IX, a landmark federal statute enacted in 1972 to prohibit sex discrimination in education, has worked its way into American culture as few other laws have. It is an iconic law, the subject of web blogs and T-shirt slogans, and is widely credited with opening the doors to the massive numbers of girls and women now participating in competitive sports. Yet few people fully understand the law’s requirements, or the extent to which it has succeeded in challenging the gender norms that have circumscribed women’s opportunities as athletes and their place in society more generally.In this first legal analysis of Title IX, Deborah L. Brake assesses the statute’s successes and failures. While the statute |
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has created tremendous gains for female athletes, not only raising the visibility and cultural acceptance of women in sports, but also creating social bonds for women, positive body images, and leadership roles, the disparities in funding between men’s and women’s sports have remained remarkably resilient. At the same time, female athletes continue to receive less prestige and support than their male counterparts, which in turn filters into the arena of professional sports. Brake provides a richer understanding and appreciation of what Title IX has accomplished, while taking a critical look at the places where the law has fallen short. A unique contribution to the literature on Title IX, Getting in the Game fully explores the theory, policy choices, successes, and limitations of this historic law. |
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UNINA9910220053603321 |
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Autore |
Greg J. Hunt |
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Advances in Genomics and Epigenomics of Social Insects |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (155 p.) |
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Frontiers Research Topics |
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Social insects are among the most successful and ecologically important animals on earth. The lifestyle of these insects has fascinated humans since prehistoric times. These species evolved a caste of workers that in most cases have no progeny. Some social insects have worker sub-castes that are morphologically specialized for discrete tasks. The organization of the social insect colony has been compared to the metazoan body. Males in the order Hymenoptera (bees, ants and wasps) are haploid, a situation which results in higher relatedness between female siblings. Sociality evolved many times within the Hymenoptera, perhaps spurred in part by increased relatedness that |
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increases inclusive fitness benefits to workers cooperating to raise their sisters and brothers rather than reproducing themselves. But epigenetic processes may also have contributed to the evolution of sociality. The Hymenoptera provide opportunities for comparative study of species ranging from solitary to highly social. A more ancient clade of social insects, the termites (infraorder Isoptera) provide an opportunity to study alternative mechanisms of caste determination and lifestyles that are aided by an array of endosymbionts. This research topic explores the use of genome sequence data and genomic techniques to help us explore how sociality evolved in insects, how epigenetic processes enable phenotypic plasticity, and the mechanisms behind whether a female will become a queen or a worker. |
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