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An edition of Game, set, match (2011)

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.

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University of North Carolina Press
Language
English
Pages
282

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Subjects

Women athletes, Women tennis players, Social conditions, Sex discrimination in sports, Biography, United States, King, billie jean, 1943-, Tennis, biography

People

Billie Jean King

Places

United States

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Chapel Hill
Other Titles
Billie Jean King and the revolution in women's sports

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Dewey Decimal Class
796.342092, B
Library of Congress
GV994.K56 W37 2011, GV994.K56W37 2011

The Physical Object

Pagination
282 p. :
Number of pages
282

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OL25563680M
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ISBN 10
0807834548
ISBN 13
9780807834541
LCCN
2010032662
OCLC/WorldCat
652448046

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