Game, Set, Match Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports

Name: Game, Set, Match Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports
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ISBN: 9781469622033

ISBN-10: 1469622033

ISBN-13: 9781469622033

Edition: 2015

Authors: Susan Ware

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When Billie Jean King trounced Bobby Riggs in tennis's "Battle of the Sexes" in 1973, she placed sports squarely at the center of a national debate about gender equity. In this winning combination of biography and history, Susan Ware argues that King's challenge to sexism, the supportive climate of second-wave feminism, and the legislative clout of Title IX sparked a women's sports revolution in the 1970s that fundamentally reshaped American society.While King did not single-handedly cause the revolution in women's sports, she quickly became one of its most enduring symbols, as did Title IX, a federal law that was initially passed in 1972 to attack sex discrimination in educational…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 2/1/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English