We Don't Want Your Hand-Me-Downs: A Review of Title IX: Implications for Women in Sport and Education

Authors

  • Jennifer Lynn Martin Oakland University

Abstract

This review examines the historical, political and legal inplications of the new documentary, Title IX: Implications for Women in Sport and Education, produced through a partnership between WBGU-PBS, Bowling Green State University, and the National Association for Girls and Women in Sport.

Author Biography

Jennifer Lynn Martin, Oakland University

Jennifer L. Martin, Ph.D., is the department head of English at a public alternative high school for at-risk students in Michigan and a lecturer at Oakland University where she teaches graduate research methods in the department of Educational Leadership, Feminist Methods and Introduction to WGS in the department of Women and Gender Studies. She is not only a feminist teacher, but a feminist activist. She has volunteered as an assault responder and engaged in political action for feminist causes. Currently she is the Title IX Education Task Force Chair for the Michigan National Organization for Women in order to advocate for Title IX compliance in Michigan's schools. She has conducted research and written articles on the topics of peer sexual harassment, teaching for social justice, service learning, and the at-risk student.

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Published

2010-06-09

Issue

VOLUME 9, ISSUE 2 (2010): GENDER, SPORT AND THE OLYMPICS

Section

reviews

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.