Type: Public event

SHARP Insights: How Title IX Changed the Game, History and the Impact of Title IX

Date & time

Sep 14, 2011, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

Location

Free and open to the public.


Susan Ware, historian and author, is an acclaimed biographer of Amelia Earhart, Molly Dewson, Mary Margaret McBride and other significant figures in women's history. Ware introduces her new book, Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports, about Billie Jean King as a feminist sports icon and the catalyst of the women's sports revolution in the 1970s that fundamentally reshaped American society.

From her bio
A pioneer in the field of women's history and a leading feminist biographer, Susan Ware is the author and editor of numerous books on twentieth-century U.S. history. Educated at Wellesley College and Harvard University, she has taught at New York University and Harvard, where she served as editor of the biographical dictionary Notable American Women: Completing the Twentieth Century (2004). Ware has long been associated with the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and is active in a variety of professional organizations. She has extensive media experience in radio, television, and documentary film and is committed to bringing women's history and feminist scholarship to a wide popular audience.

Sponsored by: the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), and the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.