Women in Sport

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Updated September 23, 2025
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Getting in the game : Title IX and the women's sports revolution
Brake, Deborah L.
Ebook
In this first legal analysis of Title IX, Deborah L. Brake assesses the statute's successes and failures, using a feminist theory lens to understand, defend, and critique the law. While the statute has created tremendous gains for female athletes, not only raising the visibility and cultural...
Women and sports in the United States a documentary reader
O'Reilly, Jean.
Ebook
A spectacular transformation in women's sports has occurred over the past century in colleges, high schools, and recreational leagues across the nation. Gradual changes during the late 1950s and 1960s within the fields of women's physical education and amateur sport provided the initial energy...
Sport and women : social issues in international perspective
Hartmann-Tews, Ilse
Paper Book
Although female athletes are successful in all types of sport, in many countries sport is still a male domain. This book examines and compares the sporting experiences of women from different countries around the world and offers the first systematic and cross-cultural analysis of the topic of women...

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