Invisible seasons
Subtitle: Title IX and the fight for equity in college sports
By: Kelly Belanger
Edition: First edition.
Series: Sports and entertainment; Sports and entertainment
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780815634706; 9780815634843
Subjects: Women athletes; United States; College sports for women; Government policy; Sex discrimination in sports; Education Amendments of 1972 (United States); Law and legislation; College sports; History
Description: In 1979, a group of women athletes at Michigan State University, their civil rights attorney, the institution?s Title IX coordinator, and a close circle of college students used the law to confront a powerful institution-- their own university. By the mid-1970s, opposition from the NCAA had made intercollegiate athletics the most controversial part of Title IX, the 1972 federal law prohibiting discrimination in all federally funded education programs and activities. At the same time, some of the most motivated, highly skilled women athletes in colleges and universities could no longer tolerate the long-standing differences between men's and women's separate but obviously unequal sports programs. In Invisible Seasons, Belanger recalls the remarkable story of how the MSU women athletes helped change the landscape of higher education athletics. They learned the hard way that even groundbreaking civil rights laws are not self-executing. This behind-the-scenes look at a university sports program challenges us all to think about what it really means to put equality into practice, especially in the money-driven world of college sports.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Do women want the Rose Bowl?; title: Teaming up : sports and feminism; title: Identity crisis : the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women; title: Full-court press : the National Collegiate Athletic Association; title: Transition to equality : the 1975 Title IX athletics regulations; title: Part 2. Grassroots of change; title: Spartans; title: An activist's story; title: Catalysts; title: Part 3. Students take action; title: Consciousness-raising; title: Fighting words; title: A plea for unity; title: Part 4. Escalation; title: See you in court; title: Deadline!; title: Can you play with Magic?; title: Conclusion : defining moments.