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By Peggy Miller Francke May 10, 2012 The multi-talented sports champion Eleonora Sears died four years before Title IX became ...
By Peggy Miller Francke May 10, 2012 The multi-talented sports champion Eleonora Sears died four years before Title IX became ...
by Marie Hardin When Title IX became law in 1972, it started a chain of events that have ultimately changed ...
by Martha Burk Title IX has been a part of our body of law for 40 years, and it has ...
By Cindy Cooper May 5, 2012 In 1892, suffragist and temperance leader Frances Elizabeth Willard had a truly wild idea: ...
by Gabrielle Korn I have a question. Who decided that sports – competitive, complicated, labor-intensive, rules-driven – are fun? I don’t ...
by Laura Pappano As a blogger and reader of women’s sports blogs, I’ve learned that one subject reliably spurs sharp ...
by Molly M. Ginty Gathered in a circle on a rainbow of yoga mats, tucking braids, curls and dreadlocks into ...
Featuring the poetry of Kathleen Aguero, Judith Barrington, Carolyn Martin, and Penelope Scambly Schott; Curated by Poetry Co-editor Judith Arcana. ...
by Louise Melling April 15, 2012 For nearly two years, legislatures across the country have proposed and passed an unprecedented ...
by Ariel Dougherty Forty years ago, at the same time that Title IX was passed by the federal government, Sheila Paige and ...
by Mary Lou Greenberg April 10, 2012 When two Barnard college students arrived to escort patients into a New York ...
by Lu Bailey This year, my 10 year-old told me that she wanted to try out for the cheerleading squad ...
by Rachel Toor Because I never played sports, because I went with my feminist mother to 1970s rallies and women’s ...
By Charlotte Taft April 3, 2012 As I write this, I’m not sure whether reproductive rights activists are in a ...
by Chané Jones and The Feminist Press An exploration about sports soon reveals that it is about much more than ...
by Lindsay Parks Pieper Renée Clarke towered over all of her competitors in the 1976 La Jolla tennis tournament. Aided ...
By Ann Rose March 28, 2012 Since 1976 when the Hyde Amendment passed, I’ve been hopelessly annoyed with the pro-choice ...
by Risa Isard It’s a Sunday night in June in 2007 and my best friends and I lie on the ...
by Alex Channon Sex segregation in sports is so widely accepted that it is hardly ever discussed. But this outdated ...
by Jane Schonberger Growing up in the ’70s, I loved watching the Olympics. As an athlete myself, I sat mesmerized ...
by Mauricio Espinoza Jordan leaped to grab that ball as if nothing else in the world mattered, the way good ...
The Art Perspective provides a visual and audio forum for artists to exhibit their art and present exciting responses to ...
By Janna Frieman March 22, 2012 In January, a woman prematurely gave birth to twins in her cell within 24 ...
by Tim Grainey The United States women’s national soccer team played to a television audience of 40 million in 1999, ...
by Christine Stark I could say soccer saved me, but it wouldn’t be true. I saved myself, as a girl, ...
by The Editors The convergence of two events this summer brings excitement and attention to women in sports — the ...
by Susan J. Bandy As a former athlete and a graduate student in Sports Studies, I embraced feminism in the ...
by Carol Clouse In the surge of Sandy, I sat alone in my home in southeast Pennsylvania, and listened to ...
by Andrew D. Linden To watch his daughter, Angela, play quarterback in 2011, former National League Football quarterback Mark Rypien, ...
By David Burress March 14, 2012 The right-wing anti-abortion movement’s every argument against abortion has a coherent pro-violent subtext. There ...
by Laura A. Shamas The physically talented woman-competitor is an amazing feature of many timeless tales. She runs faster than ...
By Sarah Morison March 8, 2012 In August 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made an unprecedented visit to the ...
by Mary W. Quigley On Monday evening, October 29, as super storm Sandy made landfall on Long Island, Laurie Nadel ...