Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story Of Women In Water Vicki Valosik Ww Norton Co Αγγλικά Βιβλία Health Family & Life Style Sports And Fitness

Since The Nineteenth Century Tensions Between Beauty And Strength Aesthetics Athleticism Have Both Impeded Propelled Careers Of Female Swimmers—None More So Than Synchronised Swimmers In This Deeply Researched History Vicki Valosik Traces A Aquatic Performance For First Time From Victorian Variety Theatre Carnival Shows To 1984 Elevation Swimming Olympic Status Writing Eloquent Prose How Early Starlets Like Lurline Water Queen Annette Kellerman Boldly Challenged Restrictive Codes Set Women Just Bathing Beauties They Influenced Lifesaving Physical-Education Programmes Dropped Drowning Rates Paved Way New Generations Athletes Brimming With Reverence Mesmerising Detail Pretty Finally Foregrounds An Essential Sport Σελίδες: 432 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0816 Διαστάσεις: 16X16Cm