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Winning track and field for girls / by Housewright, Ed.(CARDINAL)462418;
Subjects: Track and field for women.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Women's hurdling : novice to champion / by Brooks, Chris(Christine)(CARDINAL)842644;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Hurdling (Track and field); Sports for women.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Women of sports. by Rutledge, Rachel.(CARDINAL)651260;
Discusses the past and present of women's track and field and presents biographies of eight notable competitors, including Sally Barsosio, Cathy Freeman, and Angela Williams.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Track and field athletes; Track and field athletes; Track and field for women; Women track and field athletes; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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NC State track and field. by North Carolina State University.(CARDINAL)157604;
Subjects: North Carolina State University; Track and field; Track and field for women; Track and field athletes; Women track and field athletes;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5
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Passing the baton : Black women track stars and American identity / by Ariail, Cat M.,1987-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Raising the bar : Alice Coachman and the boundaries of postwar American identity, 1946-1948 -- Sprints of citizenship : identity politics and black women's athleticism, 1951-1952 -- Passing the baton toward belonging : Mae Faggs and the making of the Americanness of black American track women, 1954-1956 -- Winning as American women : the heteronormativity of black women athletic heroines, 1958-1960 -- "Olympian quintessence" : Wilma Rudolph, athletic femininity, and American iconicity, 1960-1962 -- Conclusion. The precarity of the baton pass : race, gender, and the enduring barriers to American belonging."After World War II, the United States used international sport to promote democratic values and its image of an ideal citizen. But African American women excelling in track and field upset such notions. Cat M. Ariail examines how athletes such as Alice Coachman, Mae Faggs, and Wilma Rudolph forced American sport cultures-both white and Black-to reckon with the athleticism of African American women. Marginalized still further in a low-profile sport, young Black women nonetheless bypassed barriers to represent their country. Their athletic success soon threatened postwar America's dominant ideas about race, gender, sexuality, and national identity. As Ariail shows, the wider culture defused these radical challenges by locking the athletes within roles that stressed conservative forms of femininity, blackness, and citizenship"--
Subjects: African American women track and field athletes; African American women track and field athletes; African American women; African American women; Track and field for women; Discrimination in sports;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Jackie Joyner-Kersee / by Cohen, Neil,1953-(CARDINAL)367160;
A biography of the Olympic gold medalist and world champion in both the long jump and the heptathlon.990L
Subjects: Biographies.; Joyner-Kersee, Jacqueline, 1962-; African Americans; African Americans; Track and field athletes; Women track and field athletes; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Long-armed Ludy and the first women's Olympics : based on the true story of Lucile Ellerbe Godbold / by Patrick, Jean L. S.,author.(CARDINAL)657975; Gustavson, Adam,illustrator.(CARDINAL)647189;
Includes bibliographical references.Shares the story of how Lucile Godbold qualified for the first Women's Olympics but had no money to go, so her college classmates helped raise money to send her to Paris where she won the gold medal.650LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Godbold, Lucile, 1900-1981; Track and field athletes; Women track and field athletes; Olympics; Track and field athletes; Women track and field athletes; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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Nike is a goddess : the history of women in sports / by Smith, Lissa.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-323).Track and field -- Baseball and softball -- Tennis -- Golf -- Canoeing, kayaking, rowing, and sailing -- Skiing -- Figure skating -- Swimming -- Equestrian sports -- Gymnastics -- Soccer -- Ice hockey -- Basketball.1220L
Subjects: Sports for women; Sports for women; Women athletes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Babe Didrikson : the greatest all-sport athlete of all time / by Cayleff, Susan E.,1954-(CARDINAL)753247;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-167) and index.A biography of Babe Didrikson, who broke records in golf, track and field, and other sports, at a time when there were few opportunities for female athletes.
Subjects: Biographies.; Zaharias, Babe Didrikson, 1911-1956; Athletes; Women athletes; Athletes; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Running girl : the diary of Ebonee Rose / by Mathis, Sharon Bell.(CARDINAL)507395;
In her diary Ebonee Rose records her passion for running, her desire to be like the great African American women athletes who have come before her, and her preparations for the All-City Meet.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; African Americans; Diaries; Running; Track and field;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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