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More Than a Game: One Woman's Fight
for Gender Equity in Sport, by Cynthia Lee A. Pemberton (Northeastern
University Press, 2002)
Calling women to continue the fight for sexual equality, Cynthia
Pemberton's autobiography recounts her personal battle to uphold
the integrity of Title IX, as she tried to level the playing
field between men and women's sports at Linfield College in
Oregon. As the Assistant Athletic Director of Women's sports
in the early 1990's, Pemberton observed the stark contrast between
the scant resources given to female athletes versus the preferential
treatment that male athletes received. Pemberton's perseverance,
courage, and commitment to sex equality, led her on a mission
to bring Linfield College into compliance with Title IX. $17.95,
paper. (Northeastern University Press, c/o CUP Services, Box
6525, Ithaca, NY 14851; www.nupress.neu.edu) |
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Talk about Sex, by Janice M.
Irvine (University of California Press, 2002)
A
story about sex, politics, and words, Janice Irvine's book chronicles
the battles over sex education in the United States. Irvine's
book includes a comprehensive history of the conflict over sex
education as well as an examination of the politics of sexual
speech in the United States. She asserts that the conflict over
sex education lies at the center of a larger fear that the use
of sexual language will generate social chaos. Irvine analyzes
how the Christian Right has fostered an environment where it
is a political risk to speak in favor of sex education by exploiting
the public's sense of sexual shame and fear. $24.95, cloth.
(University of California Press, c/o California/Princeton Fulfillment
Services, 1445 Lower Ferry Road, Ewing, NJ 08618; orders@cpfs.pupress.princeton.edu;
www.ucpress.edu) |
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Twenty-First Century Feminist Classrooms,
edited by Amie A. Macdonald and Susan Sánchez-Casal (Palgrave
Macmillan Press, 2002).
Part of the Comparative
Feminist Studies Series, this anthology serves as a tool for
feminist educators searching for new methods and teaching practices
for the twenty-first century antiracist, feminist classroom.
Macdonald and Sánchez-Casal have compiled a series of essays
on various feminist pedagogical approaches to globalizing the
curriculum, queer theory, service learning, anti-racism, and
more. $22.95, paper. (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 175 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY 10010; www.palgrave-usa.com)
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