Getting in the game [[electronic resource] ] : Title IX and the women's sports revolution / / Deborah L. Brake

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785183603321
• Autore: Brake Deborah L
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : New York University Press, 2010
• ISBN: 0-8147-8979-X; 0-8147-8712-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Collana: Critical America
• Disciplina: 344.73/099
• Soggetti: Sex discrimination in sports - Law and legislation - United States; Women athletes - Legal status, laws, etc - 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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.

Slavery and the culture of taste / / Simon Gikandi

• Record Nr.: UNISA996247974403316
• Autore: Gikandi Simon
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
• ISBN: 1-283-16902-9; 9786613169020; 1-4008-4011-2
• Edizione: [Core Textbook]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 306.3/6209033
• Soggetti: Slavery in literature; Slavery - Moral and ethical aspects
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Overture: Sensibility in the Age of Slavery -- 2. Intersections: Taste, Slavery, and the Modern Self -- 3. Unspeakable Events: Slavery and White Self-Fashioning -- 4. Close Encounters: Taste and the Taint of Slavery -- 5. "Popping Sorrow": Loss and the Transformation of Servitude -- 6. The Ontology of Play: Mimicry and the Counterculture of Taste -- Coda: Three Fragments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: It would be easy to assume that, in the eighteenth century, slavery and the culture of taste--the world of politeness, manners, and ; aesthetics--existed as separate and unequal domains, unrelated in the spheres of social life. But to the contrary, Slavery and the Culture of Taste demonstrates that these two areas of modernity were surprisingly entwined. Ranging across Britain, the antebellum South, and the West Indies, and examining vast archives, including portraits, period paintings, personal narratives, and diaries, Simon Gikandi illustrates how the violence and ugliness of enslavement actually shaped theories of taste, notions of beauty, and practices of high culture, and how slavery's impurity informed and haunted the rarified customs of the time. Gikandi focuses on the ways that the enslavement of Africans and the profits derived from this exploitation enabled the moment of taste in European--mainly British--life, leading to a transformation of bourgeois ideas regarding freedom and selfhood. He explores how these connections played out in the immense fortunes made in the West Indies sugar colonies, supporting the lavish lives of English barons and altering the ideals that defined middle-class subjects. Discussing how the ownership of slaves turned the American planter class into a new aristocracy, Gikandi engages with the slaves' own response to the strange interplay of modern notions of freedom and the realities of bondage, and he emphasizes the aesthetic and cultural processes developed by slaves to create spaces of freedom outside the regimen of enforced labor and truncated leisure. Through a close look at the eighteenth century's many remarkable documents and artworks, Slavery and the Culture of Taste sets forth the tensions and contradictions entangling a brutal practice and the distinctions of civility.