Changing the Game, 9780393696660
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Gender, sports, and law collide: Can students change the game?
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Changing the Game

title ix, gender, and college athletics

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    184 pages

  • Release Date

    19 March 2020

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Summary

Leveling the Field: A Title IX Reacting to the Past Game

This Reacting to the Past game plunges students into the heart of a heated debate at a fictional university in the mid-1990s. What begins as a discussion about the role of athletics quickly escalates into a battle for gender equality, with students demanding equal resources and opportunities for women’s sports and athletes.

Drawing upon congressional testimonies from the landmark Title IX hearings, players champion the…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780393696660
ISBN-10:0393696669
Series:Reacting to the Past
Author:Abigail Perkiss, Kelly McFall
Publisher:WW Norton & Co
Imprint:WW Norton & Co
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:184
Release Date:19 March 2020
Weight:311g
Dimensions:231mm x 180mm x 10mm
About The Author

Abigail Perkiss

Kelly McFall is professor of history and chair of the humanities division at Newman University in Wichita, Kansas. Since 2013, he has run a popular podcast focusing on new books in genocide studies. In 2014, he won the inaugural Faculty of Distinction award from the Kansas Independent Colleges Association, recognizing his teaching excellence. He is a member of the Reacting to the Past editorial board and author of a forthcoming Reacting to the Past game with Abby Perkiss on Title IX, gender, and athletics.

Abigail Perkiss (Kean University) is an Assistant Professor of History at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. Her first book, Making Good Neighbors: Civil Rights, Liberalism, and Integration in Postwar Philadelphia, examined the creation of intentionally integrated neighborhoods in the latter half of the twentieth century. She completed a joint JD/PhD in U.S. history at Temple University. She is the Managing and Pedagogy Editor of the Oral History Review, and Vice President of Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region.

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