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-s

New York Times bestseller Rachel Ignotofsky's Women in Sports comes to the youngest readers in board format! Highlighting the pioneering efforts of women athlet

This perceptive, lively study explores U.S. women's sport through historical "points of change": particular products or trends that dramatically influenced both

The subject is rife with social and cultural implications which Guttmann explores as he traces the development of women's sports from antiquity to the present,

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