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

ISBN: 1469622033

ISBN13: 9781469622033

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

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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.

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