Strong Women. Better World: Title IX's Global Effect
Autor Sarah Hillyeren Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 iul 2022 – vârsta ani
Every story has a hero, every hero has a superpower, and when used with intentionality, sport is an incredible superpower in the fight for gender equality. Strong Women, Better World celebrates the global superheroes who use the potent mix of sport and education to kick down social, cultural, or political barriers and build stronger, more equitable communities. The book highlights nine members and alumnae of the Global Sports Mentoring Program (GSMP) Sisterhood, an award-winning sports diplomacy and mentorship exchange program implemented by the University of Tennessee’s Center for Sport, Peace, and Society (CSPS) in partnership with the U.S. Department of State and espnW. The stories of these nine superheroes are captivating examples of Title IX’s global ripple effect and illustrate how helping empower women and girls worldwide to achieve their own Title IX moments provides multidimensional wins for us all.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781621907619
ISBN-10: 1621907619
Pagini: 144
Ilustrații: full color throughout
Dimensiuni: 229 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: University of Tennessee Press
Colecția Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN-10: 1621907619
Pagini: 144
Ilustrații: full color throughout
Dimensiuni: 229 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: University of Tennessee Press
Colecția Univ Tennessee Press
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A sunny day in June of 2012 on Alaska’s Mount McKinley had grown dangerously dark. Ilina Arsova and her team of mountaineers were attempting to climb Denali, the tallest mountain in North America. This was Ilina’s third mountain in her quest to scale each of the Seven Summits. This trek, though, was becoming more and more arduous with each passing day. Snow and wind swirled aggressively around Ilina and her team. She could smell—even taste —frozen blood inside of her nose. The snow was heavy, unstable, and continued to pour from the sky. Avalanches were rumbling. Crevasses were expanding. And the cold! Ilina could feel it everywhere, biting all the way down to her bones. Other mountaineers were turning around, abandoning the quest, giving away all of their food to those willing to continue the climb. With visibility on the mountain close to zero, Ilina couldn’t see the avalanches but she could hear them, their ominous rumbles becoming more powerful, creeping closer and closer to their camp. There was nothing to do but fortify the tents and hope for the best.
The next day, their 14th on the mountain, Ilina managed to exit her tent around 12:30 p.m. Everything had been buried by an avalanche the night before and several people were injured. The forecast called for temperatures of -40F. Ilina knew that “the summit was only halfway home”—success was going up and coming back down. She was now faced with a decision she’d never had to make before: she could turn around, go back down the mountain and try again at another time, or press on in the face of uncertain terrain and weather. Whatever she decided could be the difference between life and death, not just for Ilina but for her entire team.
Ilina grew up admiring Superwoman. Like Superwoman, Ilina wanted to develop her own strength and help bring justice to others. The thing that made her happiest was climbing, and Ilina says that she climbed “even as a baby” on her parents’ backs. At age 14, Ilina climbed Vodno Mountain in Skopje all by herself. This first ascent was all it took; Ilina was hooked. She invited her sister and schoolmates for group hikes and aspired to climb more mountains, recognizing that she had a natural talent for it. The more challenging and riskier the mountains, the more enticing they became to her. She pushed her limits, leaving the comfort of home for months at a time to scale mountains around the world. For a while, these smaller climbs were enough, but they only amplified Ilina’s passion for mountaineering. Eventually, she set her sights on what would be an historic accomplishment. She was going to be the first Macedonian woman to climb each of the Seven Summits. What better way to motivate others and to show them that nothing is impossible, than to climb to the top of the world - seven times?
The Seven Summits represent the seven highest points on each of the seven continents. To undertake this extreme mountaineering challenge, Ilina would have to be in exceptional physical and mental condition. She began to cross-train in other sports such as paragliding, skydiving, bouldering, hiking, biking, skiing, and swimming. However, these were expensive undertakings, and Ilina soon realized that she couldn’t afford to train in all of them; she quit paragliding and skydiving and moved towards more specific training needed for the climbs. In 2011, she scaled her first of the Seven Summits: Mount Aconcagua in Argentina. The following year she journeyed to Africa and scaled Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro. Then something happened that would change Ilina’s life forever.
The next day, their 14th on the mountain, Ilina managed to exit her tent around 12:30 p.m. Everything had been buried by an avalanche the night before and several people were injured. The forecast called for temperatures of -40F. Ilina knew that “the summit was only halfway home”—success was going up and coming back down. She was now faced with a decision she’d never had to make before: she could turn around, go back down the mountain and try again at another time, or press on in the face of uncertain terrain and weather. Whatever she decided could be the difference between life and death, not just for Ilina but for her entire team.
Ilina grew up admiring Superwoman. Like Superwoman, Ilina wanted to develop her own strength and help bring justice to others. The thing that made her happiest was climbing, and Ilina says that she climbed “even as a baby” on her parents’ backs. At age 14, Ilina climbed Vodno Mountain in Skopje all by herself. This first ascent was all it took; Ilina was hooked. She invited her sister and schoolmates for group hikes and aspired to climb more mountains, recognizing that she had a natural talent for it. The more challenging and riskier the mountains, the more enticing they became to her. She pushed her limits, leaving the comfort of home for months at a time to scale mountains around the world. For a while, these smaller climbs were enough, but they only amplified Ilina’s passion for mountaineering. Eventually, she set her sights on what would be an historic accomplishment. She was going to be the first Macedonian woman to climb each of the Seven Summits. What better way to motivate others and to show them that nothing is impossible, than to climb to the top of the world - seven times?
The Seven Summits represent the seven highest points on each of the seven continents. To undertake this extreme mountaineering challenge, Ilina would have to be in exceptional physical and mental condition. She began to cross-train in other sports such as paragliding, skydiving, bouldering, hiking, biking, skiing, and swimming. However, these were expensive undertakings, and Ilina soon realized that she couldn’t afford to train in all of them; she quit paragliding and skydiving and moved towards more specific training needed for the climbs. In 2011, she scaled her first of the Seven Summits: Mount Aconcagua in Argentina. The following year she journeyed to Africa and scaled Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro. Then something happened that would change Ilina’s life forever.