{"id":940,"date":"2019-11-14T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T18:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/?page_id=940"},"modified":"2019-12-13T15:37:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T20:37:35","slug":"pruss","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/pruss\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cOne of my heroes\u2026 is a tennis player:\u201d Female Athletes and Feminism\u2019s Second Wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This project explores the issue of women in sports during feminism\u2019s Second Wave that resulted in the passage of Title IX. Some of the earliest issues of <em>Ms.<\/em> magazine welcomed the sporting woman and recognized that female athletes were at the forefront of women\u2019s liberation. Writers advocated equality for women in sport, redefined female beauty as strong, muscular and athletic, and celebrated the achievements of female sports heroes.<\/p>\n<p>Sportswriter Janice Kaplan explains how society once pushed girls and women to be ashamed of their athletic abilities. But as female athletes such as Billie Jean King rose to nation-wide fame, women\u2019s athletic mindsets expanded to a new, revolutionary image. King launched this transformation with her win over Bobby Riggs in the famed \u201cBattle of the Sexes,\u201d which poet Nikki Giovanni would reflect on later in her poem \u201cMirrors.\u201d Title IX, passed in 1972, further contributed to the growth of women in sports as the law prohibited discrimination against girls and women in educational and athletic programs.<\/p>\n<p>-Ryan Pruss<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Links to Posts (in order):<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"row-title\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/pruss45\/female-sports-before-the-2nd-wave\/\" aria-label=\"\u201cFemale Sports Before the 2nd Wave\u201d (Edit)\">Female Sports Before the 2nd Wave<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"row-title\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/pruss45\/the-guide-to-titleix\/\" aria-label=\"\u201cThe Guide to Title IX\u201d (Edit)\">The Guide to Title IX<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/pruss45\/societal-pressures-on-female-sports\/\" aria-label=\"\u201cSocietal Pressures on Female Sports\u201d (Edit)\">Societal Pressures on Female Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"row-title\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/pruss45\/the-new-image-of-female-bodies\/\" aria-label=\"\u201c\u201cThe New Image\u201d of Female Bodies\u201d (Edit)\">\u201cThe New Image\u201d of Female Bodies<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/pruss45\/the-hero-of-the-female-sports-movement-billie-jean-king\/\" aria-label=\"\u201cThe Hero of the Female Sports Movement: Billie Jean King\u201d (Edit)\">The Hero of the Female Sports Movement: Billie Jean King<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/pruss45\/mirrors-for-billie-jean-king-by-nikki-giovanni\/\" aria-label=\"\u201c\u201cMirrors (for Billie Jean King)\u201d by Nikki Giovanni\u201d (Edit)\">\u201cMirrors (for Billie Jean King)\u201d by Nikki Giovanni<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"row-title\" href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/engl113-f18\/pruss45\/works-cited-2\/\" aria-label=\"\u201cWorks Cited\u201d (Edit)\">Works Cited<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This project explores the issue of women in sports during feminism\u2019s Second Wave that resulted in the passage of Title IX. 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