Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (697 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0807834548 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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The dilemma of modern feminism How quickly we forget what we didn't have back in the day--equal rights! Ware's book reminds us of how hard Billie Jean King and other feminists fought to bring the social consciousness into the reality of female discrimination.My generation--the 50s girls--were called tomboys if we liked sports. We didn't have the opportunities that girls and women of the Title IX generation do. T. "Must read" according to JoAnne M. Birmingham. Informative, thorough and well written. It is a must read. Jaw dropping to learn what has and is going on in the sport's world especially for women.. Great Tennis book This books delves much deeper into society than just tennis. It looks at the politics behind women's sports and education in America. Kinda droll at times, but exciting at others.
From Booklist In 1973, Billie Jean King, then the best female tennis player in the world, defeated fiftysomething Bobby Riggs before a national television audience in the so-called Battle of the Sexes. It was a symbolic victory and proved to be the catalyst for a tremendous growth spurt in womens competitive sports. An extraordinarily illuminating account of the history of womens sports. Ware, a scholar specializing in womens history, presents both a biography of King and a chronological history of womens sports. By the late seventies, womens participation in high-school and intercollegiate sports had skyrocketed. The King chapters are fascinating, particularly Wares exploration of Kings commitment to advancing womens tennis, but the best parts of the book deal with the larger issues of sports, especially the legislative battles to pass Title IX (guaranteeing equality in funding womens intercollegiate sports) and the struggle to imple
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. King's place in tennis history is secure, and now, with Game, Set, Match, she can take her rightful place as a key player in the history of feminism as well. 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.While King did not single-handedly cause the revolution in women's sports, she quickly became one of its most enduring symbols, as did Title IX, a federal law that was initially passed in 1972 to