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Gloria Steinem and the Faces of Feminism: MAKERS: Women Who Make America

Regina Weinreich | Posted 04.10.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: Alix Kates Shulman, Tovah Feldshuh, Tim Armstrong, Daniel Boulud. Barak Goodman, Bella Abzug, Rita Mae Brown, Rabba Sara Hurwitz, Billie Jean King, Phil Donahue, Gloria Steinem, Diahann Carroll, Bobby Riggs, Arianna Huffington, Dyllan McGee, Sonia Nassery Cole, Marlo Thomas, Betty Friedan, Makers, Joe Pantoliano, Lilly Ledbetter, Erica Jong, Katie Couric, Felicia Taylor, Jr., Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Julie Taymor, Peggy Siegal, Allison Williams, Henry Louis Gates, Susan Brownmiller, Entertainment News
Regina Weinreich

Makers is a term for all women, whether or not she calls herself a feminist, makes a home, works on a construction crew. She may be the first woman firefighter, first female brigadier general, or first woman orthodox rabbi.

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Title IX at 40 -- An Interview With Billie Jean King

Martha Burk | Posted 08.20.2012 | Sports
Read More: Women's Sports, Title IX, Billie Jean King, Women's Tennis, Bobby Riggs, Tennis, Billie Jean King Interview, Billie Jean King Title Ix, Sports News
Martha Burk

One of the tireless advocates for Title IX, both before and since its passage, is tennis legend Billie Jean King. Though King retired from competitive play in 1990, her work never stops.

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My Road to Womanhood: Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man?

April Rudin | Posted 08.24.2011 | Women
Read More: Dan Abrams, Girls, Gender Equality, Women's Rights, Women, Women's Issues, Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, Men, Boys, Man Down, Women News
April Rudin

In 1964, Rex Harrison pondered the question: why can't a woman be more like a man, through the music and lyrics of Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Ler...

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Interview with a Philosopher: On Tennis and Life - What the Racket is All About

Tom Morris | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: David Foster Wallace, Roger FPhilosophy, Battle of the Sexes, Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, The Body, Excellence, Dre Agassi, Andy Roddick, Beauty, Tennis, Interview, Losing, Pete Sampras, Competition, Martina Navratilova, Winning, Chris Evert, Arthur Ashe, Anederer, Healthy Living News
Tom Morris

What do philosophers have to say about life that's relevant to your interests? Can modern thinkers help us better understand our experience in the wor...

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Why Schoolgirls Wouldn't Giggle at the AP's Softball Story

Marta Lawrence | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Olympics 2008, Jennie Finch, Billie Jean King, Battle of the Sexes, Ncaa, USA Softball, Bobby Riggs, Marta Lawrence, Media News
Marta Lawrence

Maybe the AP's version of overt gender stereotyping is actually preferable to the more insidious undercutting that happens in papers across the country every day -- not just in athletics.

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