[New post] An Audience of Athletes: The Rise and Fall of Feminist Sports

Britni de la Cretaz posted: "Britni de la Cretaz | Longreads | May 2019 | 26 minutes (6,609 words) The idea for womenSports magazine was born in a car suspended over the San Francisco Bay by beams of steel. Several weeks before she captivated the nation by beating Bobby Riggs in the" New post on Longreads An Audience of Athletes: The Rise and Fall of Feminist Sports by Britni de la Cretaz Britni de la Cretaz | Longreads | May 2019 | 26 minutes (6,609 words) The idea for womenSports magazine was born in a car suspended over the San Francisco Bay by beams of steel. Several weeks before she captivated the nation by beating Bobby Riggs in the "Battle of the Sexes" tennis match in the fall of 1973, Billie Jean King sat in the passenger seat of a car and stewed. At the wheel was her then-husband, Larry, driving the couple from Emeryville near Oakland toward San Francisco on the Bay Bridge, and as Billie Jean flipped through an issue of Sports Illustrated, she complained, which is what she always did whenever she picked up an issue of SI. Read more of this post Britni de la Cretaz | May 22, 2019 at 7:00 am | Tags: Andre Laguerre, Anne Lamott, Billie Jean King, Cheryl McCall, Chris Evert, conde nast, ESPN, Eva Auchincloss, Gloria Steinem, Jane Leavy, Jon Carroll, Larry King, LeAnne Schreiber, Linda Jefferson, Ms. Magazine, NWFL, Rosalie Muller Wright, Sports Illustrated, Susan Casey, Tennis, Time Inc, Velveteen Rose, Virginia Slims, WNBA, Women's Sports and Fitness, womenSports, womenSports magazine | Categories: Essays & Criticism, Featured, Sports, Story, Uncategorized | URL: https://wp.me/p4KhvY-wxc Like Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Longreads. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://longreads.com/2019/05/22/an-audience-of-athletes-the-rise-and-fall-of-feminist-sports/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com