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

by Susan Ware

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807834548
• ISBN13: 9780807834541
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"