Swimming pretty : the untold story of women in water

Title Swimming pretty : the untold story of women in water
Names Valosik, Vicki.
Book Number DB126906
Title Status Active
Medium Digital Books
Annotation "'If you're not strong enough to swim fast, you're probably not strong enough to swim 'pretty,'' said a young Esther Williams to theater impresario Billy Rose. Since the nineteenth century, tensions between beauty and strength, aesthetics and athleticism have both impeded and propelled the careers of female swimmers--none more so than synchronized swimmers, for whom Williams is often considered godmother. In this riveting history--the first of its kind--Vicki Valosik traces a century of aquatic performance, from vaudeville and dime museums to the Olympic arena. Williams, who became a Hollywood sensation for her splashy "aquamusicals," was just one in a long, bedazzled line of swimmers who began their careers as athletes but found greater opportunity, and often social acceptance, in the world of show business. Together, they not only laid the groundwork for synchronized swimming, but forever changed women's relationships with water."-- From publisher. -- Unrated. Commercial audiobook.
Narrator Welborn, Sarah.
Local Subject Aquatic & air sports - 797
Sports & Recreation - SPO
Women's Issues - WOM
History - United States - HUS
History, U.S.- 21st Century - HUF
Current Talking Book Topics - TBT
Exclusion - Female Narrator - FN
Exclusion - Long Book - LO
LC Subject Synchronized swimming - History
Swimming for women - History
Women swimmers - History
Sports for women - History
Sex discrimination - History
Women Olympic athletes - History
Informational works
Nonfiction
Call Number 797.217082 ANF
Language English
Original Publication Reissue of: 2024 9781696616300 2024
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