Description
Title IX is arguably one of the most important pieces of federal legislation affecting higher education in the past fifty years. Welch Suggs's A Place on the Team chronicles the history, legal interpretations, and battles surrounding Title IX and gender equity in intercollegiate athletics. It is an exceptionally well-written, well-researched, and balanced book that should be read by anyone interested in the present and future of college sports. -- Myles Brand, President, the National Collegiate Athletic Association As someone who has coached girls and women at many different levels, I've seen the ways that Title IX has changed the landscape of athletics. A Place on the Team provides an engrossing and thorough look at how this legislation has affected and continues to shape women's sports. -- Sylvia Hatchell, Head Coach, University of North Carolina Women's Basketball A Place On The Team is the definitive book on Title IX and will be required reading for every person--certainly for every coach, athletics department official, and university administrator--interested in the topic. Its presentation of the history is clear, cogent, and exhaustive. -- Murray Sperber, Indiana University This book gathers in one place all the important information on historical, philosophical and legal aspects of women's sports. It enlivens this with interviews with the major players in the field and with real life stories that bring the major issues home to the reader. What's more, it recognizes the difficulties women's sports programs will continue to face as the cost of providing intercollegiate athletics rises. -- Elsa Kircher Cole, General Counsel, National Collegiate Athletic Association
About the Author
Welch Suggs is associate director of the Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics and is also pursuing a Ph.D. in education policy at the University of Georgia. He is the former senior editor for athletics at the "Chronicle of Higher Education", and has written about sports for the "Kansas City Star" and "Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal".
Reviews
Finalist for the 2006 Billie Award in Journalism, Women's Sport Foundation Honorable Mention for the 2006 Myers Outstanding Book Award "[A] must-read for any sports historian or female athlete interested in how the opportunities she so freely enjoys came about."--Publishers Weekly "Ultimately a gripping story of Title IX's triumph."--Harvard Law Review "Finally, a lucid, thorough and non-polemical accounting of Title IX's origins, development, and impact. Welch Suggs traces the women's sports revolution back to its roots in physical education, details Title IX's origins in civil rights law, and explains why the law has proven to be so resistant to legal challenge. He doesn't flinch from taking stock of the law's regrettable consequences. All future discussion of college sports and gender equity will begin with this book."--Alexander Wolff, Sports Illustrated "Suggs provides brief histories of college sports, women's college sports administration, and civil rights legislation before wading into case law that Title IX begat. He makes sense of this convoluted, contentious journey through 2004 and fairly presents a range of feminist, conservative and libertarian viewpoints."--Library Journal "With A Place on the Team, Suggs has done a service to anyone who wants to understand the history of Title IX and the debates that continue to swirl around its implementation."--Michael A. Messner, Academe
Awards
Commended for Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award 2006.
Book Information
ISBN 9780691128856
Author Welch Suggs
Format Paperback
Page Count 296
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 397g