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Locker Room Talk

A Woman's Struggle to Get Inside
BuchGebunden
374 Seiten
Englisch
Rutgers University Presserscheint am23.09.2024
While sportswriters rushed into Major League Baseball locker rooms to talk with players, MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn barred the lone woman from entering along with them. That reporter, 26-year-old Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke, charged Kuhn with gender discrimination, and after the lawyers argued Ludtke v. Kuhn in federal court, she won. Her 1978 groundbreaking case affirmed her equal rights, and the judge´s order opened the doors for several generations of women to be hired in sports media. Locker Room Talk is Ludtke´s gripping account of being at the core of this globally covered case that churned up ugly prejudices about the place of women in sports. Kuhn claimed that allowing women into locker rooms would violate his players´ sexual privacy. Late-night television comedy sketches mocked her, as newspaper cartoonists portrayed her as a sexy, buxom looker who wanted to ogle the naked athletes´ bodies.  She weaves these public perspectives throughout her vivid depiction of the court drama overseen by Judge Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to serve on the federal bench. She recounts how her lawyer, F.A.O. Fritz Schwarz, employed an ingenious legal strategy that persuaded Judge Motley to invoke the Fourteenth Amendment´s Equal Protection Clause in giving Ludtke access identical to that of her male counterparts. Locker Room Talk is both an inspiring story of one woman´s determination to do a job dominated by men and an illuminating portrait of a defining moment for women´s rights.mehr

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KlappentextWhile sportswriters rushed into Major League Baseball locker rooms to talk with players, MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn barred the lone woman from entering along with them. That reporter, 26-year-old Sports Illustrated reporter Melissa Ludtke, charged Kuhn with gender discrimination, and after the lawyers argued Ludtke v. Kuhn in federal court, she won. Her 1978 groundbreaking case affirmed her equal rights, and the judge´s order opened the doors for several generations of women to be hired in sports media. Locker Room Talk is Ludtke´s gripping account of being at the core of this globally covered case that churned up ugly prejudices about the place of women in sports. Kuhn claimed that allowing women into locker rooms would violate his players´ sexual privacy. Late-night television comedy sketches mocked her, as newspaper cartoonists portrayed her as a sexy, buxom looker who wanted to ogle the naked athletes´ bodies.  She weaves these public perspectives throughout her vivid depiction of the court drama overseen by Judge Constance Baker Motley, the first Black woman to serve on the federal bench. She recounts how her lawyer, F.A.O. Fritz Schwarz, employed an ingenious legal strategy that persuaded Judge Motley to invoke the Fourteenth Amendment´s Equal Protection Clause in giving Ludtke access identical to that of her male counterparts. Locker Room Talk is both an inspiring story of one woman´s determination to do a job dominated by men and an illuminating portrait of a defining moment for women´s rights.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-1-9788-3778-2
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartGebunden
FormatGenäht
Erscheinungsjahr2024
Erscheinungsdatum23.09.2024
Seiten374 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 156 mm, Höhe 235 mm, Dicke 33 mm
Gewicht680 g
Artikel-Nr.60927038

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
PrologueChapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8Chapter 9Chapter 10Chapter 11Chapter 12Chapter 13Chapter 14Chapter 15Chapter 16Chapter 17Chapter 18Chapter 19Chapter 20Chapter 21Chapter 22Chapter 23Chapter 24Chapter 25Chapter 26Chapter 27Chapter 28Chapter 29Chapter 30EpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesSelected BibliographyIndexmehr

Autor

MELISSA LUDTKE was a reporter for Sports Illustrated, a correspondent for Time, and editor of Nieman Reports at Harvard University. Her books include On Our Own: Unmarried Motherhood in America and Touching Home in China: In Search of Missing Girlhoods. She received the Yankee Quill Award and Mary Garber Pioneer Award and was a Nieman Fellow and a Prudential Fellow at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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