Educational Equity

by Maschke,Karen

• ISBN13: 9780815325185
• ISBN10: 0815325185
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Multidisciplinary focus Surveying many disciplines, this anthology brings together an outstanding selection of scholarly articles that examine the profound impact of law on the lives of women in the United States. The themes addressed include the historical, political, and social contexts of legal issues that have affected women's struggles to obtain equal treatment under the law. The articles are drawn from journals in law, political science, history, women's studies, philosophy, and education and represent some of the most interesting writing on the subject. The law in theory and practice Many of the articles bring race, social, and economic factors into their analyses, observing, for example, that black women, poor women, and single mothers are treated by the wielders of the power of the law differently than middle class white women. Other topics covered include the evolution of women's legal status, reproduction rights, sexuality and family issues, equal employment andeducational opportunities, domestic violence, pornography and sexual exploitation, hate speech, and feminist legal thought. A valuable research and classroom aid, this series provides in-depth coverage of specific legal issues and takes into account the major legal changes and policies that have had an impact on the lives of American women.

Table of Contents

Series Introduction	vii	(2)
Volume Introduction	ix
An Interview on Title IX with Shirley Chisholm, Holly Knox, Leslie R. Wolfe, Cynthia G. Brown, and Mary Kaaren Jolly	2	(23)
Harvard Educational Review
"The Ladies Want to Bring About Reform in the Public Schools": Public Education and Women's Rights in the Post-Civil War South	25	(14)
Kathleen c. Berkeley
Sex Discrimination in Athletics: A Review of Two Decades of Accomplishments and Defeats	39	(50)
Glenn M. Wong
Richard J. Ensor
The Trouble with Coeducation: Mann an Women at Antioch, 1853-1860	89	(22)
John Rury
Glenn Harper
The Fear of Feminization: Los Angeles High Shools in the Progressive Era	111	(26)
Victoria Bissell Brown
Beyond Title IX: Toward an Agenda for Women and Sports in the 1990s	137	(48)
Wendy Olson
Emma Williard's Idea Put to the Test: The Consequences of State Support of Female Education in New York, 1819-67	185	(20)
Nancy Beadie
The LSAT: Narratives and Bias	205	(44)
Leslie G. Espinoza
United States v. Virginia: The Case of Coeducation at Virginia Military Institute	249	(48)
Julie M. Amstein
Where Coeds Were Coeducated: Normal Schools in Wisconsin, 1870-1920	297	(26)
Christine A. Ogren
Acknowledgments	323