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Shifting Currents
A World History of Swimming
Buch von Karen Eva Carr
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Karen Eva Carr is associate professor emerita in the Department of History at Portland State University. Her books include Vandals to Visigoths: Rural Settlement Patterns in Early Medieval Spain.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Sport
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Hobby & Freizeit
Thema: Lexika & Handbücher
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 304
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781789145786
ISBN-10: 1789145783
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Carr, Karen Eva
Hersteller: Reaktion Books
Maße: 239 x 162 x 45 mm
Von/Mit: Karen Eva Carr
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.05.2022
Gewicht: 0,87 kg
preigu-id: 120739314
Über den Autor
Karen Eva Carr is associate professor emerita in the Department of History at Portland State University. Her books include Vandals to Visigoths: Rural Settlement Patterns in Early Medieval Spain.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Sport
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Hobby & Freizeit
Thema: Lexika & Handbücher
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 304
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781789145786
ISBN-10: 1789145783
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Carr, Karen Eva
Hersteller: Reaktion Books
Maße: 239 x 162 x 45 mm
Von/Mit: Karen Eva Carr
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.05.2022
Gewicht: 0,87 kg
preigu-id: 120739314
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