Suggested Resources on Title IX from the Archivist
by Mary-Jo Kline
Books and Printed Materials
Carpenter, Linda Jean, and R. Vivian Acosta.Title IX. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2005. [A book designed to help sports professionals understand the law and its implications.]
Hogshead-Makar, Nancy, and Andrew S. Zimbalist. Equal Play: Title IX and Social Change. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007. [Collection of essays by several experts dealing with every imaginable aspect of Title IX and its historical implications.]
Suggs, Welch. A Place on the Team: The Triumph and Tragedy of Title IX. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. [Scholarly treatment of the subject.]
Ware, Susan, ed. Title IX: A Brief History with Documents. New York: Bedford, 2006.
A look at the lives of American women and men in the 1960s and 1970s:
Berkowitz, Edward D. Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. [Survey of the decade.]
Bloch, Avital H., and Lauri Umansky, eds. Impossible to Hold: Women and Culture in the 1960’s. New York: New York University Press, 2005.
Frum, David. How We Got Here: The 70’s, the Decade That Brought You Modern Life, for Better or Worse. New York: BasicBooks, 2000.
Kaufman, Will. American Culture in the 1970s. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
Schulman, Bruce J. The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics. New York: Free Press, 2001. [A social history.]
On women in professional and collegiate sports:
Fields, Sarah K. Female Gladiators: Gender, Law, and Contact Sport in America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2005.
Grundy, Pamela, and Susan Shackelford. Shattering the Glass: The Remarkable History of Women’s Basketball. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Broader background in the history of women in sports:
Markel, Robert, Susan Waggoner, and Marcella Smith. The Women’s Sports Encyclopedia. New York: H. Holt, 1997.
Sicherman, Barbara, and Carol Hurd Green, eds. Notable American Women: The Modern Period: A Biographical Dictionary. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980. [This reference source has an index that will identify the sketches of prominent American women athletes of the early to mid-twentieth century.]
Sparhawk, Ruth M. American Women in Sport, 1887–1987: A 100-Year Chronology. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1989.
A memoir of one woman’s experiences as director of women’s sports programs at a small Oregon college:
Pemberton, Cynthia Lee A. More Than a Game: One Woman’s Fight for Gender Equity in Sport. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002.
Internet Resources
Organizations with information on Title IX and its legal implications:
Women’s Sports Foundation:
http://www.womenssportsfoundation.org/home/advocate/title-ix-and-issues
The National Women’s Law Center:
http://www.nwlc.org/our-issues/education-%2526-title-ix
Title IX Advocacy:
www.titleix.info
The National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education website includes downloadable versions of reports issued by the Coalition since 1997 as well as other useful materials:
http://www.ncwge.org/reports.html
A New York Times article. "As Girls Become Women, Sports Pays Dividends" (February 15, 2010), on the benefits of Title IX:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/health/16well.html?scp=2&sq=title+IX+&st=nyt