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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817270003321

Autore

Porto Brian L

Titolo

A new season : using Title IX to reform college sports / / Brian L. Porto

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2003

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024

ISBN

979-84-00-69126-3

1-282-40815-1

9786612408151

0-313-05161-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Disciplina

796/.082

Soggetti

College sports - United States

Sex discrimination in sports - Law and legislation - United States

Women athletes - Government policy - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-236) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 This Season; 2 Seasons Past; 3 Seasons of Debt; 4 Seasons of Shame; 5 Seasons of Pain; 6 Seasons of Hope; 7 Seasons of Promise; 8 The New Season Begins; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book demonstrates how colleges might retain threatened varsity programs and expand sports opportunities for women students if they replaced the current commercial model with one that emphasizes student participation. This would benefit the college students who play varsity sports, instead of benefiting the coaches, athletic directors, or over-generous boosters who dominate many programs.||In Title IX, the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in education, schools have been handed a golden opportunity to bring fiscal sanity and academic integrity back to their campuses by once again