Sports Leadership Resource Centre: Books
Synopsis: When Billie Jean King trounced Bobby Riggs in tennis’s ‘Battle of the Sexes’ in 1973, she placed sports squarely at the centre of a national debate about gender equity. 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 and Western 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 attack sex discrimination in educational institutions but had its greatest impact by opening opportunities for women in sports. 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.
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