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Locker Room Talk

Melissa Ludtke

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  • 374 sidor
  • 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 judges order opened the doors for several generations of women to be hired in sports media. Locker Room Talk is Ludtkes 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 Amendments Equal Protection Clause in giving Ludtke access identical to that of her male counterparts. Locker Room Talk is both an inspiring story of one womans determination to do a job dominated by men and an illuminating portrait of a defining moment for womens rights.
  • Författare: Melissa Ludtke
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781978837782
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 374
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-08-16
  • Förlag: Rutgers University Press