Raised by an outspoken single mother, Mac coaches women's high school
basketball in a New Orleans public school. When Mac encourages a star
athlete, Barbara Jeanne Bordelon, to play on the boy's basketball team,
he incurs a flurry of public scrutiny that puts him in the path of
radical feminists and evangelical Christians. Set in the 1970s to
coincide with the Title IX ruling, Courting Pandemonium looks back on
the landmark equal rights case with the singular mix of poignancy and
absurdist humor Barton is known for.