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Better Faster Farther How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women


Free Download Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women by Maggie Mertens
English | June 18, 2024 | ISBN: 1643753355 | 304 pages | PDF | 19 Mb
*NATIONAL BESTSELLER* "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

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Better Faster Farther How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women [Audiobook]


Free Download Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLQ4DMNC | 2024 | 9 hours and 24 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 274 MB
Author: Maggie Mertens
Narrator: Maggie Mertens, Lauren Fleshman

More than a century ago, a woman ran in the very first modern Olympic marathon. She just did it without permission. Award-winning journalist Maggie Mertens uncovers the story of how women broke into competitive running and how they are getting faster and fiercer every day-and changing our understanding of what is possible as they go. Despite women proving their abilities on the track time and again, men in the medical establishment, media, and athletic associations have fought to keep women (or at least white women) fragile-and sometimes literally tried to push them out of the race (see Kathrine Switzer, Boston Marathon, 1967). Yet before there were running shoes for women, they ran barefoot or in nursing shoes.

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Better Faster Farther How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women


Free Download Better Faster Farther: How Running Changed Everything We Know About Women by Maggie Mertens
English | June 18th, 2024 | ISBN: 1643753355 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 17.50 MB
"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

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Farther, Faster, and Far Less Drama How to Reduce Stress and Make Extraordinary Progress Wherever You Lead [Audiobook]


Free Download Janice Fraser (Author, Narrator), Jason Fraser, "Farther, Faster, and Far Less Drama: How to Reduce Stress and Make Extraordinary Progress Wherever You Lead"
English | ASIN: B0BXTYDX8K | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~08:16:00 | 226 MB
Everyone wishes life could be simpler in this fast-paced world, but that often feels impossible.
It doesn’t have to.

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