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003			OSt
005			20250129133602.0
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020			_a9781611864816 _q(paperback)
020			_a9781611864809 _q(cloth)
020			_a9781609177492
020			_a9781628955149
040			_aMMARA-U _beng _eMMARA-U _cMMARA-U _dMMARA-U
042			_apcc
043			_af-ke---
050	0	0	_aGV 1061.23 .K4S55 2023
082	0	0	_a796.42082 _223/eng/20230117
100	1		_aSikes, Michelle, _eauthor. _92444
245	1	0	_aKenya's running women : _ba history / _cMichelle M. Sikes.
264		1	_aEast Lansing : _bMichigan State University Press, _c[2023]
300			_axxiii, 233 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aAfrican history and culture
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aThe 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.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aWomen runners _zKenya _xHistory. _92445
942			_2lcc _cLOAN LOAN
999			_c33326 _d33323