Tag: Vicki Valosik
A singularly entertaining and wonderfully complex historical study of women in water
In Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water (Liveright Publishing), Vicki Valosik traces two millennia of women and swimming, and a century of aquatic performance, from vaudeville to the Olympic arena, and brings to life the colorful cast of characters whose “pretty swimming” not only laid the groundwork for an altogether new sport but forever changed women’s relationships with water. In her thorough and readable review, Katarina Tornborg is impressed and enthused by Valosik’s well-written history of women’s emancipation and empowerment in the world of water sports.
