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Sherry Boschert
Sherry Boschert is a former award-winning journalist and the author of two books — one, a sweeping history of the law that banned sex discrimination in education, and the other a political, social, and economic look at the state of electric vehicles.
Fifty Years of Title IX: How 37 Words Changed America (The New Press 2026) is the renamed paperback version of her 2022 hardcover book 37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination (The New Press 2022). As part of her research and outreach for the book, Sherry has been blogging since 2015 at sherryboschert.com on topics related to Title IX, feminism, education, and more.
Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars That Will Recharge America (New Society Publishers 2006) tells the story of the struggles near the start of this century that contributed to the modern era of electric vehicles (EVs). Sherry maintains an interest in matters related to EVs and clean energy. She serves on the Lebanon (N.H.) Energy Advisory Committee and is chair of its EV Subcommittee.
After nearly 40 years in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sherry moved to Lebanon, N.H., where she has lived since 2021.
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Fifty Years of Title IX: How 37 Words Changed America
In 1972, thirty-seven words quietly entered federal law and ignited a revolution:
“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
Title IX redefined what was possible for women and girls in America’s schools—from access to classrooms and sports fields to protection from sexual harassment and assault. In Fifty Years of Title IX, a book The Washington Monthly calls “an impressive feat,” award-winning journalist Sherry Boschert traces the dramatic story of how this pivotal law came to be, how it has evolved, and why it remains a powerful—and contested—force in the struggle for gender justice.
Through meticulous reporting, Boschert introduces readers to the trailblazers behind the law, including Bernice Resnick Sandler, and the generations who have demanded that its promises be fulfilled. Called “inspiring” by Publishers Weekly, Fifty Years of Title IX “puts a human face” (Library Journal) on the fight for gender equity.
37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination
By prohibiting sex discrimination in federally funded education, the 1972 legislation popularly known as Title IX profoundly changed the lives of women and girls in the United States, accelerating a movement for equal education in classrooms, on sports fields, and in all of campus life.
37 Words is the story of Title IX. Filled with rich characters—from Bernice Resnick Sandler, an early organizer for the law, to her trans grandchild—the story of Title IX is a legislative and legal drama with conflicts over regulations and challenges to the law. It’s also a human story about women denied opportunities, students struggling for an education free from sexual harassment, and activists defying sexist discrimination. These intersecting narratives of women seeking an education, playing sports, and wanting protection from sexual harassment and assault map gains and setbacks for feminism in the last fifty years and show how some women benefit more than others. Award-winning journalist Sherry Boschert beautifully explores the gripping history of Title IX through the gutsy people behind it.
In the tradition of the acclaimed documentary She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, 37 Words offers a crucial playbook for anyone who wants to understand how we got here and who is horrified by current attacks on women’s rights.
Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars That Will Recharge America
A politically polarized America is coming together over a new kind of car—plug-in electric vehicles that save drivers money, reduce pollution, and increase US security by reducing dependence on imported oil.
Plug-in Hybrids points out that, where hydrogen fuel-cell cars won’t be ready for decades (if at all), the technology for all-electric vehicles (EVs) and plug-in hybrids exists today. Unlike conventional hybrid cars that can’t run without gasoline, plug-in cars use gasoline or cheaper, cleaner, domestic electricity—or both. Demand for plug-in vehicles is widespread, coming from characters across the political spectrum, such as:
* Chelsea Sexton, the automotive insider: working for General Motors, Sexton fought attempts to destroy the all-electric EV1 car and describes how car companies are resisting plug-in hybrids—and why they’ll make them -anyway.
* Felix Kramer and the tech squad: Kramer started a nonprofit organization using the Internet to tap into a small army of engineers who built the first plug-in Prius hybrids.
* R. James Woolsey, former CIA director and national security hawk: seeing the end of oil supplies looming, Woolsey is demanding plug-in hybrids to wean us from petroleum.
Cautioning that the oil and auto companies know how to undermine the success of plug-in car programs to protect their interests, the book gives readers tools to ensure that EVs and plug-in hybrids become the market for cars and trucks.
Because the market for EVs has advanced so quickly, some of the information in this book is dated, so the publisher and author decided not to reprint it after two editions. But for readers who want to know the history behind today’s plug-in electric vehicles, and the political obstacles still in their way, this book gives the foundation for understanding the modern auto market.