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The race to be myself : a memoir

Semenya, Caster 1991- (author.).

Summary: "Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya's win was quickly overshadowed by criticism and speculation about her body, and she became the center of a still-raging firestorm about how gender plays out in sports, our expectations of female athletes, and the right to compete as you are"--

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  • ISBN: 1324035773
  • ISBN: 9781324035770
  • Physical Description: 309 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note: Prologue -- The beginning. God made me -- A different kind of girl -- I am not afraid -- Hunting with boys -- The change -- Thabiso The rise. Where I belong -- They saw me run -- On the way up -- A higher education -- The troubles begin -- Berlin -- The awakening. Not woman enough -- You magazine -- The nothingness -- Hope -- The comeback -- Love and happiness -- The redemption. Road to London 2012 -- Gold in Rio -- Return of the IAAF -- Inside the court -- The aftermath -- Epilogue: The Cobra.

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Genre: Autobiographies.

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  • 8 of 9 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Albright Memorial Library 92 SEMENYA (Text) 50686016368297 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Alexander Hamilton Memorial Free Library B SEM (Text) 37268003179249 AHMFL Biography Available -
Altoona Area Public Library 796.42 SEM (Text) 33240004711761 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Annie Halenbake Ross Library B Sem (Text)
Memorial: In Memoriam of Charles M. Flaig
00161459 ADULT Biography Available -
Highland Community Library 796.42 SEM (Text) 35610001024434 HGHM New Non-Fiction Available -
Lower Macungie Library BIO SEMENYA (Text) 33400001563488 New Adult Biography Available -
Reading Public Library RPL - Main Bio Semenya, C (Text) 33223009056218 New Available -
Easton Main Library 796.42 S471r (Text) 31901004766137 New Adult Nonfiction Available -
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