Shifting currents : a world history of swimming
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Published
London : Reaktion Books, 2022.
ISBN
1789145783, 9781789145786
Physical Desc
455 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
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SWOCC Library - SWOCC Collection New | GV836.4.C37 2022 | Available |
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Published
London : Reaktion Books, 2022.
Format
Book
Language
English
ISBN
1789145783, 9781789145786
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-442) and index.
Description
Shifting Currents is an original and comprehensive history of swimming. It examines the tension that arose when non-swimming northerners met African and Southeast Asian swimmers. Using archaeological, textual and art historical sources, Karen Eva Carr shows how the water simultaneously attracted and repelled these northerners--swimming seemed uncanny, related to witchcraft and sin. Europeans used Africans' and Native Americans' swimming skills to justify enslaving them, but northerners also wanted to claim water's power for themselves. They imagined that swimming would bring them health and demonstrate their scientific modernity. This unresolved tension still sexualizes women's swimming and marginalizes Black and Indigenous swimmers today. The history of swimming is a new lens through which to gain a clearer view of race, gender and power on a centuries-long scale.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Carr, K. E. (2022). Shifting currents: a world history of swimming . Reaktion Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Carr, Karen Eva, 1964-. 2022. Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming. Reaktion Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Carr, Karen Eva, 1964-. Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming Reaktion Books, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Carr, Karen Eva. Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming Reaktion Books, 2022.
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