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

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

Ware, Susan, 1950- (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0807834548 (hc.)
  • ISBN: 9780807834541 (hc.)
  • Physical Description: 282 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-268) and index.
Summary, etc.:
By linking the stories of Billie Jean King and Title IX, Ware explains why women's sports took off in the 1970s and demonstrates how giving women a sporting chance has permanently changed American life on and off the playing field.
Subject: King, Billie Jean.
Tennis players > United States > Biography.
Women tennis players > United States > Biography.
Sex discrimination in sports > United States.
Women athletes > United States > Social conditions.

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