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Kenya's running women : a history / Michelle M. Sikes.

By: Material type: TextSeries: African history and culturePublisher: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2023]Description: xxiii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781611864816
  • 9781611864809
  • 9781609177492
  • 9781628955149
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 796.42082 23/eng/20230117
LOC classification:
  • GV 1061.23 .K4S55 2023
Contents:
The Gendered Development of Athletics in Kenya -- Nation, Race, Gender and Athletes' Rights in the Early Independence Era: The Case of Diana Monks -- Precocious Achievement and the Long Run to Inclusion: Marriage, Motherhood, and the Military -- The World Beckons: Kenya, Title IX, and the Expansion of Women's Track and Field -- I Have a Whole Battalion that Depends on Me: Professionals, Patrons, and Pioneers of Women's Running in Kenya.
Summary: "In Kenya's Running Women: A History, historian and former professional runner Michelle M. Sikes details the many challenges Kenyan women runners faced, from the advent of Kenya's athletics program in the colonial era through the professionalization of running in the 1980s and 1990s"-- Provided by publisher.
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L Maasai Mara University Library -Main Campus GV 1061.23 .K4S55 2023 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 24040516

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Gendered Development of Athletics in Kenya -- Nation, Race, Gender and Athletes' Rights in the Early Independence Era: The Case of Diana Monks -- Precocious Achievement and the Long Run to Inclusion: Marriage, Motherhood, and the Military -- The World Beckons: Kenya, Title IX, and the Expansion of Women's Track and Field -- I Have a Whole Battalion that Depends on Me: Professionals, Patrons, and Pioneers of Women's Running in Kenya.

"In Kenya's Running Women: A History, historian and former professional runner Michelle M. Sikes details the many challenges Kenyan women runners faced, from the advent of Kenya's athletics program in the colonial era through the professionalization of running in the 1980s and 1990s"-- Provided by publisher.

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