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Media Coverage Of The Post Title Ix Female Athlete: A Feminist Analysis Of Sport, Gender, And Power, Mary Jo Kane Apr 1996

Media Coverage Of The Post Title Ix Female Athlete: A Feminist Analysis Of Sport, Gender, And Power, Mary Jo Kane

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I. Introduction Sport is one of the most important institutions in American culture. This certainly is demonstrated by the vast resources spent on sport-related enter- prises. With respect to discretionary spending alone, billions of dollars are spent annually on the sale of licensed sport products (e.g., baseball caps). In 1992, retail sales of all licensed sport merchandise totaled $ 12.2 billion. 1 In the early 1990s, the top four men's professional sport leagues (football, bas- ketball, baseball, and ice hockey) generated almost $ 4 billion in revenues. 2 Most recently, Anheuser-Busch announced that they had signed a $ 40 million …


Race And Gender Discrimination: A Historical Case For Equal Treatment Under The Fourteenth Amendment, Sandra L. Rierson Jan 1994

Race And Gender Discrimination: A Historical Case For Equal Treatment Under The Fourteenth Amendment, Sandra L. Rierson

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It was we, the people, not we, the white male citizens, nor yet we, the male citizens, but we, the whole people, who formed this Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people--women as well as men. --Susan B. Anthony 1 Under the common law of both England and the United States, a married woman enjoyed a legal status only slightly better than that of a slave. Until the mid-nineteenth century, in no state could …