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Kenya's running women : a history
- Title
- Kenya's running women : a history / Michelle M. Sikes.
- Author
- Sikes, Michelle
- Publication
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2023]
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- Description
- xxiii, 233 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- African history and culture
- Uniform Title
- African history and culture.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- The Gendered Development of Athletics in Colonial 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.
- Call Number
- ReCAP 24-2360
- ISBN
- 9781611864816
- 161186481X
- LCCN
- 2023001810
- OCLC
- 1369147206
- Author
- Sikes, Michelle, author.
- Title
- Kenya's running women : a history / Michelle M. Sikes.
- Publisher
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2023]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- African history and cultureAfrican history and culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- ReCAP 24-2360