Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports
- ISBN-10
- 0807834548
- ISBN-13
- 9780807834541
- Series
- Game, Set, Match
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 282
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011
- Publisher
- Univ of North Carolina Press
- Author
- Susan Ware
Description
Argues that Billie Jean King's 1973 defeat of male player Bobby Riggs in tennis' Battle of the Sexes match helped, along with the passage of the Title IX anti-sex discrimination act, cause a revolution in women's sports.
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