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A Running Start: An Athlete, A Woman

Lynda Huey

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Description:“Athletics to me has been the root of the greatest satisfaction and happiness in my life,” Lynda Huey writes in A Running Start. And with all the energy and assurance that made her a championship caliber track star, and an innovative teacher of physical education, Ms. Huey has written a frank, entertaining and timely book about women and sports that attacks and disproves the stereotypes from which increasing numbers of women are breaking free.In a society that makes heroes of male athletes and insists, in all but the rarest of cases, that women can’t be both feminine and athletic, Lynda Huey, an attractive and dedicated sportswoman, proves the lie. A Running Start portrays the pressures to conform that haunt athletically inclined women: the pressure to be submissive; the pressure to cheer the men on, not to play themselves.Ms. Huey, breaking down some barriers along the way, emerges as a bubbling, enthusiastic, and determined woman with a love for athletics who feels that other women should not systematically be denied the opportunity to cultivate the same appreciation. The author’s sheer joy in running track, the “natural high” she experiences and the self-conﬁdence she feels in having a ﬁnely tuned, strong athletic body, is contagious.She scoffs at the idea that the “skinny, pale model on the front cover of the fashion magazines [should be] our feminine ideal.... No wonder so many girls give up serious athletics for fear of developing ‘big muscles.’ No wonder so many parents grow concerned when their daughters become ‘overly involved’ in sport. As if it’s possible to be too strong, too vital, too alive.”Ms. Huey, as a top-rank athlete—she holds one national collegiate record still—and teacher, has been involved in some of the more dramatic sports stories of late: She attended college and competed at San Jose State, the hotbed of track and the home of the "Speed City Gang" in the late 1960s; she was close to the 1968 Olympic Boycott Movement that culminated in the symbolic manifestations of Black Power by some of her closest friends during the Mexico City games; she taught at Oberlin College in an experimental, innovative, and controversial program of physical education headed by Jack Scott—all the while getting to know, sometimes intimately, many of America's finest athletes.Unlike some of her more well-known and accomplished sister athletes, Ms. Huey's experience closely parallels the experience of the average American woman. The philosophical leap which enabled the author to change from cheerleader to competitor will strike a sympathetic chord in most American women.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Running Start: An Athlete, A Woman. To get started finding A Running Start: An Athlete, A Woman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: “Athletics to me has been the root of the greatest satisfaction and happiness in my life,” Lynda Huey writes in A Running Start. And with all the energy and assurance that made her a championship caliber track star, and an innovative teacher of physical education, Ms. Huey has written a frank, entertaining and timely book about women and sports that attacks and disproves the stereotypes from which increasing numbers of women are breaking free.In a society that makes heroes of male athletes and insists, in all but the rarest of cases, that women can’t be both feminine and athletic, Lynda Huey, an attractive and dedicated sportswoman, proves the lie. A Running Start portrays the pressures to conform that haunt athletically inclined women: the pressure to be submissive; the pressure to cheer the men on, not to play themselves.Ms. Huey, breaking down some barriers along the way, emerges as a bubbling, enthusiastic, and determined woman with a love for athletics who feels that other women should not systematically be denied the opportunity to cultivate the same appreciation. The author’s sheer joy in running track, the “natural high” she experiences and the self-conﬁdence she feels in having a ﬁnely tuned, strong athletic body, is contagious.She scoffs at the idea that the “skinny, pale model on the front cover of the fashion magazines [should be] our feminine ideal.... No wonder so many girls give up serious athletics for fear of developing ‘big muscles.’ No wonder so many parents grow concerned when their daughters become ‘overly involved’ in sport. As if it’s possible to be too strong, too vital, too alive.”Ms. Huey, as a top-rank athlete—she holds one national collegiate record still—and teacher, has been involved in some of the more dramatic sports stories of late: She attended college and competed at San Jose State, the hotbed of track and the home of the "Speed City Gang" in the late 1960s; she was close to the 1968 Olympic Boycott Movement that culminated in the symbolic manifestations of Black Power by some of her closest friends during the Mexico City games; she taught at Oberlin College in an experimental, innovative, and controversial program of physical education headed by Jack Scott—all the while getting to know, sometimes intimately, many of America's finest athletes.Unlike some of her more well-known and accomplished sister athletes, Ms. Huey's experience closely parallels the experience of the average American woman. The philosophical leap which enabled the author to change from cheerleader to competitor will strike a sympathetic chord in most American women.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with A Running Start: An Athlete, A Woman. To get started finding A Running Start: An Athlete, A Woman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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