Better, faster, farther : how running changed everything we know about women
(2024)
By:
Mertens, Maggie
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
796.42082/MERTENS,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781643753355, 1643753355 :, 1643753355, 9781643753355
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Introduction: women can't run -- But not more than 100m -- But only white women -- But not a mile -- But definitely not a marathon -- But only if you train like a man -- But only "real" women -- What about the long run?
"Award-winning sports journalist Maggie Mertens tells the propulsive story of how women broke into competitive running over the last century, getting faster and fiercer with every race and changing our understanding of gender and power in athletics and beyond"--