TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sikes,Michelle
TI  - Kenya's running women: a history 
T2  - African history and culture
SN  - 9781611864816
AV  - GV 1061.23 .K4S55 2023 
U1  - 796.42082 23/eng/20230117
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - East Lansing
PB  - Michigan State University Press
KW  - Women runners
KW  - Kenya
KW  - History
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -