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" Game, set, match : "
Susan Ware.
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BL
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701549
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b523738
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| Main Entry
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Ware, Susan,1950-
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Game, set, match : : Billie Jean King and the revolution in women's sports /\ Susan Ware.
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| Publication Statement
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Chapel Hill :: University of North Carolina Press,, [2011]
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, ©2011
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282 pages :: illustrations ;; 25 cm
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0807834548 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780807834541 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-268) and index.
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| Contents
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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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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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King, Billie Jean.
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Sex discrimination in sports-- United States.
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Women athletes-- United States-- Social conditions.
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Women tennis players-- United States, Biography.
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| Dewey Classification
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796.342092B
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GV994.K56W37 2011
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Billie Jean King and the revolution in women's sports
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