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- catalog abstract ""Sports is the quintessentially American dream ticket out of an unhappy life. For Leslie Heywood, champion high school miler, running was just such an escape, her feet flying away from a childhood filled with violence and enforced silence. On the track she mattered, on the track she was certain of who she was. But the world of sports was still a world uncertain of whether it wanted to allow girls in, and Heywood ran headlong into the arms of her coach and then into a collegiate team whose standards for body-fat percentages and diets and training left every athlete struggling with eating disorders and serious injuries from overuse. She kept running, and winning, until she ran too far. She almost ran herself to death - until she had to learn to stop." "Today Heywood still loves the challenge of sports, and she has found a way to live with a more balanced relationship to her body and the world. But as she looks at the explosion in the number of girl athletes around her, she asks, "How can we make it safer for them than it was for me?"" "Pretty Good for a Girl explores why girls need and want to participate in the American dream of competition and individual achievement: it also reveals the obstacles they still face - such as traditional ideas about what girls should be, which disfigure their competitive spirit and limit their potential."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b10918844.
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""Sports is the quintessentially American dream ticket out of an unhappy life. For Leslie Heywood, champion high school miler, running was just such an escape, her feet flying away from a childhood filled with violence and enforced silence. On the track she mattered, on the track she was certain of who she was. But the world of sports was still a world uncertain of whether it wanted to allow girls in, and Heywood ran headlong into the arms of her coach and then into a collegiate team whose standards for body-fat percentages and diets and training left every athlete struggling with eating disorders and serious injuries from overuse. She kept running, and winning, until she ran too far. She almost ran herself to death - until she had to learn to stop." "Today Heywood still loves the challenge of sports, and she has found a way to live with a more balanced relationship to her body and the world. But as she looks at the explosion in the number of girl athletes around her, she asks, "How can we make it safer for them than it was for me?"" "Pretty Good for a Girl explores why girls need and want to participate in the American dream of competition and individual achievement: it also reveals the obstacles they still face - such as traditional ideas about what girls should be, which disfigure their competitive spirit and limit their potential."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Prologue: one of the guys -- The practice field -- That smell -- Summer skin -- Desert heat -- It's a girl -- Hand's off -- Prickly pear -- Athletes of the year -- Pair of legs -- Biggest ego -- Bum steer -- Never enough -- Machine -- Captain Crunch.".
- catalog extent "viii, 220 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Pretty good for a girl.".
- catalog identifier "0684850702".
- catalog isFormatOf "Pretty good for a girl.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Free Press,".
- catalog relation "Pretty good for a girl.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "796.42/092 B 21".
- catalog subject "Femininity.".
- catalog subject "GV1061.15.H49 A3 1998".
- catalog subject "Heywood, Leslie Childhood and youth.".
- catalog subject "Sports Sex differences United States.".
- catalog subject "Sports United States Sex differences.".
- catalog subject "Women athletes Social conditions.".
- catalog subject "Women runners United States Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: one of the guys -- The practice field -- That smell -- Summer skin -- Desert heat -- It's a girl -- Hand's off -- Prickly pear -- Athletes of the year -- Pair of legs -- Biggest ego -- Bum steer -- Never enough -- Machine -- Captain Crunch.".
- catalog title "Pretty good for a girl / Leslie Heywood.".
- catalog type "text".