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In the tradition of Who Stole Feminism? and Christina Hoff Sommers, Jessica Gavora offers a devastating account of feminism gone haywire. For more than a generation, liberal women's groups have used a piece of federal civil rights legislation called Title IX to expand opportunities for women to play sports in college. In a classic case of unintended consequences, however, they've wrought enormous damage on men's sports programs. The cost of complying with Title IX has led to the abolition of hundreds of men's sports programs, including some heralded ones. In 1993, for instance, UCLA dropped its men's swimming and diving teams, which had produced 16 Olympic gold medalists. This is all done in the name of sexual "proportionality"--the supposed iniquity of men playing sports more than women. Gavora is a good writer and a perceptive critic who notes an exquisite irony: "Whereas in every other area of life, from the military to the boardroom to the bedroom, women's rights activists have insisted that women be allowed to compete in the same arena with men, Title IX activists have worked in athletics to protect women's special status.... On this narrow score, difference is accepted." Gavora also points out that Title IX radicalism won't halt at the edge of the sporting field; it's now stepping into new areas, including school harassment policies, student testing, and math and science achievement--anywhere males and females don't conform to feminist expectations of gender equity. Tilting the Playing Field is an excellent book on an important subject, and will appeal to right-leaning readers who dissent from feminist orthodoxy. --John Miller

This book presents a compilation of essays and speeches by the author and contributors on various issues surrounding HIV/AIDS in the African American community. The author draws on her extensive community based and advocacy work in preventive medicine/public health and her passion in preventing HIV/AIDS in the African American community, both in urban and rural communities. Additionally, the author presents factual educational material on HIV/AIDS as well as discussion questions to encourage more in-depth thought and discussion on sensitive subject matter. The author challenges the reader to consider the question, "Is there a Balm for HIV/AIDS in Black America?" It is hoped that after reading the book, the reader is able to proclaim, "Yes" because I am part of the healing that must take place in the community.

Peter Sutton highlights fundamental anthropological issues concerned with customary rights, kinship, identity and spirituality that are highly relevant to land claim cases. Native land claims continue to be one of the most controversial political, legal and moral issues in contemporary Australia. Ever since the High Court's Mabo decision of 1992, the attempt to understand and adapt "native title" to different contexts and claims has been an ongoing concern for all involved.

This clever scheme builds on Gorard's previous book, Quantitative Methods in Educational Research. He has revised the original book in the light of experience and feedback, and has reworked it so that it includes more social science examples. Four chapters are entirely new.

This volume, the ninth in the series on the human evolutionary journey, focuses on the earliest part of the last million years, ending at beginning of the last ten thousand years with the start of the agricultural revolution. At the beginning of that era there was one species of human, Homo erectus, which had appeared about a million years earlier in East Africa and had migrated across the Near East, through South Asia, and into Southeast Asia and Europe. By 200,000 years ago two more species of humans evolved, Neanderthals in Eurasia, and Homo sapiens, ourselves, in Africa. This book follows the physical and socio-cultural evolution of the three species around the world, tracing developments in language, society, learning, tool technologies, and such difficult topics as art, music, and religion. Analogies from modern apes are used, as well as information from a variety of modern foraging societies from Africa, America, and Asia. A section on Homo floresiensis is included.

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This articulate and commendable writing mirrors problems that face everyone through the eyes of an experienced social analyst. In an artistic manner, the author of Dismantling the ~Isms re-describes reality, and construes social experiences in a new and venturesome way. Various social problems are highlighted, and viable solutions are listed by the diligent author who draws from her wealth of knowledge in a deliberative and insightful manner. The common sources of the identified problems are surveyed, valuable weapons of remediation are identified and a key to unlock the mystery is carefully presented.
This book is a new and intriguing experience and is a must-read for all who wish to see a refreshing positive change in human societies in their life and times. As recycling and energy conservation have become more mainstream than ever before, all hands are on deck and the race is on to save the earth and its habitual environments. Ironically we need to save ourselves alongside.
This text targets the highest sentient beings in the environment, and while considering such mottos as “Until man shall no longer be a wolf to man”, and “Charity begins at home”, the writer puts critical human issues on the spotlight and highlights applicable solutions.
Dismantling The ~Isms is about seeking a way out of an intricate cobweb or a complex repeating networks of chains that mentally hold mankind at various levels. And this invisible network of chains can be traced to the same familiar root.
A new science is introduced in these innovatively presented writings, in which a mechanistic pathway towards the exit is outlined. The writer envisions the steps taking us from where we are to where we ought to be. And per the presented instructional guidelines, the audience will be keenly inspired to adapt the cogitative solutions and commence reasoning on a higher level; thus elevating ourselves and our planet to a new status, healthier, better and happier than ever before.
This book goes from the bottom to the top rank of selected social problems, and prophetically points everyone to a common solution. Now join the author, as the guided odyssey commences.

Women in America have come a long way in the last hundred years, from lacking the right to vote to holding some of the highest profile positions in the country. But this change has not come without struggle. More Than Title IX highlights the impact of one of the most powerful instruments of change—education. The book takes readers behind the scenes of some of the most influential moments for gender equity in education and tells the dramatic stories of the women and men who made these changes possible. The narrative blends historical analysis with dynamic interview excerpts with people whose actions made a difference in both educational equity and in the country as a whole. By showing how hard-won changes in education have improved life for women and men in America over the past century, the authors remind readers not to take freedoms for granted. The paperback edition features a new Preface, as well as a glossary and timeline of key moments in gender relations in America.