Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women’s Sports - Softcover

Ware, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1469622033 ISBN 13: 9781469622033

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2015

Synopsis

Linking the stories of Billie Jean King and Title IX, Susan 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.

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Review:

[A] winning combination of biography and social history.--Vogue

A great read. . . . Ware sews together the histories of women's sports and feminism, using feminist icon Billie Jean King as the thread. Particularly compelling is her recounting of the tennis star's battle with her own homophobia and that of society.--Ms.

[An] important book on Islamic education in West Africa.--Choice

The value of this book is its readability and its innovative use of King as a central figure to bring the history of women's sports to life. Recommended. All readers." --Choice

In Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports, the role of a pioneer and much of the leveling legislation she inspired--namely the NCAA's title IX provisions--is gamely told by women's history scholar Susan Ware.--Publishers Weekly

If you read one book, make it: Game, Set, Match. . . . As Susan Ware's biography of her shows, King's fight against sexism in sports might be her biggest accomplishment.--Shape

A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Sports Book."

Ware mixes strong writing with poignant insights from an array of sources to give us an idea of how King's tenacity and spiritedness not only enabled her get to the top of the tennis world but also helped her put women's tennis on par with the men's game.--Journal of American History

Ware is a master of the art of biography, and, with this book, she once again shows its importance to the discipline of history.--The Historian

Ware's view of history should be read by women of all ages--those who lived through it and survived it as well as (perhaps especially) the younger ones who benefited by it.--Story Circle Book Reviews

About the Author:

Susan Ware is an independent scholar who specializes in twentieth-century U.S. history, women's history, and biography.

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1469622033
• ISBN 13: 9781469622033
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294