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Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women

Maggie Mertens - Algonquin Books
Format: Hardcover

"From foot-binding to corsets, patriarchal societies have found ways to immobilize women, but now, marathoners and Olympians are proving that women can run like the wind!" - GLORIA STEINEM. "A look behind the curtain that all women who love running and sport should read."...
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Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water

Vicki Valosik - Liveright
Format: Hardcover

From vaudeville tank shows to the Olympic arena, a groundbreaking history of how women found synchronicity -- and power -- in water."If you're not strong enough to swim fast, you're probably not strong enough to swim 'pretty,'" said a young Esther Williams to theater...
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