Game, set, match
Subtitle: Billie Jean King and the revolution in women's sports
By: Susan Ware
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780807834541
Subjects: Women athletes; Women tennis players; Social conditions; Sex discrimination in sports; Biography
Other titles: Billie Jean King and the revolution in women's sports
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Battle of the Sexes; title: The making of a sports icon; title: In the meantime : the early days of Title IX; title: Billie Jean King, Inc. : womenSports, the Women's Sports Foundation, and World Team tennis; title: Before the sports bra : a short history of women's sports through the 1970s; title: The Feminist Movement that wasn't; title: The perils of celebrity and sexuality : the outing of Billie Jean King; title: The incomplete revolution.