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Game, set, match : Billie Jean King and the revolution in women's sports /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ware, Susan, 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Global Cultural Studies Supplement.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.