Locker Room Talk: A Woman's Struggle to Get Inside
Date and Time
- Thursday, Oct 24, 2024 6pm - 7:30pm
Location
Mechanics' Institute
57 Post St
Details
For Litquake Festival 2024, join journalist Melissa Ludtke in conversation with San Francisco Chronicle sports columnist Ann Killion on Ludtke’s debut memoir, Locker Room Talk: A Woman's Struggle to Get Inside.
Locker Room Talk: A Woman's Struggle to Get Inside documents Ludtke’s time as a Sports Illustrated reporter who was kicked out of the Yankee's locker room and the subsequent Supreme Court case Ludtke v. Kuhn that affirmed her equal rights. The judge’s order in her case 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.
Book sales for this event coordinated by Book Passage.