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The race to be myself : a memoir

Title
The race to be myself : a memoir / Caster Semenya.
Author
Semenya, Caster, 1991-
Publication
  • New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
  • ©2023

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Description
309 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya's win was quickly overshadowed by criticism and speculation about her body, and she became the center of a still-raging firestorm about how gender plays out in sports, our expectations of female athletes, and the right to compete as you are"--
Subject
  • Semenya, Caster, 1991-
  • Women runners > South Africa > Biography
  • Olympic athletes > South Africa > Biography
  • Intersex athletes > South Africa > Biography
  • Intersex athletes
  • Olympic athletes
  • Women runners
  • LGBTQ+ athletes
  • South Africa
Genre/Form
  • Autobiographies.
  • Biographies.
  • Intersex biographies.
  • LGBTQ+ biographies.
  • Intersex autobiographies.
  • LGBTQ+ autobiographies.
Contents
Prologue -- The beginning. God made me ; A different kind of girl ; I am not afraid ; Hunting with boys ; The change ; Thabiso The rise. Where I belong ; They saw me run ; On the way up ; A higher education ; The troubles begin ; Berlin -- The awakening. Not woman enough ; You magazine ; The nothingness ; Hope ; The comeback ; Love and happiness -- The redemption. Road to London 2012 ; God in Rio ; Return of the IAAF ; Inside the court ; The aftermath -- Epilogue: The Cobra.
Call Number
Sc E 23-1315
ISBN
  • 9781324035770
  • 1324035773
  • 9781324035787 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
1405207568
Author
Semenya, Caster, 1991- author.
Title
The race to be myself : a memoir / Caster Semenya.
Publisher
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
Copyright Date
©2023
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Local Note
Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
Local Subject
Black author.
Research Call Number
Sc E 23-1315
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