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Title:
Game, set, match : Billie Jean King and the revolution in women's sports / Susan Ware.
Author:
Ware, Susan, 1950-
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.
Call Number:
GV994.K56 W37 2011
Abstract:
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.
ISBN:
9780807834541

9781469622033
Physical Description:
282 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
The Battle of the Sexes -- The making of a sports icon -- In the meantime : the early days of Title IX -- Billie Jean King, Inc. : womenSports, the Women's Sports Foundation, and World Team tennis -- Before the sports bra : a short history of women's sports through the 1970s -- The Feminist Movement that wasn't -- The perils of celebrity and sexuality : the outing of Billie Jean King -- The incomplete revolution.
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