Sikes, Michelle, <br/><br/>
Kenya's running women :  a history / 
Michelle M. Sikes. 
 - xxiii, 233 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm. 
 - African history and culture .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> "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"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781611864816 9781611864809 9781609177492 9781628955149 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women runners--History.--Kenya
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV 1061.23 .K4S55 2023 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>796.42082