Degrees of Difficulty
how women's gymnastics rose to prominence and fell from grace
$61.29
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
14 June 2021
Summary
Degrees of Difficulty: Gymnastics and the Cold War
How the Cold War era changed the trajectory of women’s gymnastics
Electrifying athletes like Olga Korbut and Nadia Comăneci helped make women’s artistic gymnastics one of the most popular events in the Olympic Games. But the transition of gymnastics from a women’s sport to a girl’s sport in the 1970s also laid the foundation for a system of emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of gymnasts around the world. …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780252085765 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0252085760 |
| Author: | Georgia Cervin |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
| Imprint: | University of Illinois Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 14 June 2021 |
| Weight: | 481g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Sport and Society |
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“Degrees of Difficulty is an important read and makes the case for necessary changes to a sport that millions love to watch but whose institutional history few understand.” –Journal of Sport History “Georgia Cervin’s Degrees of Difficulty is an enthralling analysis of elite women’s gymnastics, from a scholar’s and insider’s view. Through carefully applied lenses of gender, race, power, and politics, Cervin exposes the historical underbelly of cheating, bribery, abuse, and political manipulation in one of the world’s most popular Olympic Sports.”–Kevin B. Wamsley, coauthor of Sport in Canada: A History, fourth edition
About The Author
Georgia Cervin
Georgia Cervin is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia and a former international gymnast.
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