Vroman’s Bookstore: MG Lord, discusses Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water
A groundbreaking history of how women found synchronicity―and power―in water. “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 […]
