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Title Nike is a goddess : the history of women in sports / edited by Lissa Smith ; introduction by Mariah Burton Nelson.

Imprint New York ; [Great Britain] : Atlantic Monthly Press, c1998.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  796.08209 N583 1998    ---  Available
Description xix, 331 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents Who we might become / Mariah Burton Nelson -- Track and field -- Somewhere to run / Kathleen McElroy -- Baseball and softball -- Swinging for the fences / Amy Ellis Nutt -- Tennis -- Net profits / Grace Lichtenstein -- Golf -- Selling their game / Melanie Hauser -- Canoeing, kayaking, rowing, and sailing -- Women on the water / Anna Seaton Huntington -- Skiing -- Rhapsody in white / Jean Weiss -- Figure skating -- Gaining an edge / Michelle Kaufman -- Swimming -- From gold spangles to gold medals / Karen Karbo -- Equestrian sports -- Highest risks for the boldest of athletes / Jackie C. Burke -- Gymnastics -- Battle against time and gravity / Jane Leavy -- Soccer -- From the suburbs to the sports arenas / Elise Pettus -- Ice hockey -- In from the cold / Barbara Stewart -- Basketball -- Not quite the game intended / Shelley Smith -- Seismic shift in the culture / Lucy Danziger.
Subject Sports for women -- United States -- History.
Sports for women -- Social aspects.
Women athletes -- United States -- History.
Added Author Smith, Lissa, 1953-
ISBN 0871137615 (pbk.)
9780871137616
0871137267
9780871137265
Standard No. UKM bA0V5450

 
    
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