Jenny Landreth
Auteur de Swell: A Waterbiography
Œuvres de Jenny Landreth
Swimming London : the 50 best pools, lidos, lakes and rivers from around the capital (2014) 4 exemplaires
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- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 36
- Popularité
- #397,831
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 10
In this Waterbiography, Landreth explores the ways that women have pushed to be allowed to swim in the same places as men and how access was reluctantly given. She highlights those women who have taken them on at their own records across the channel and other endurance events, fought against overt discrimination just for the right to swim. In amongst these social battles are some amazing women who would not take no for an answer, some pretty dire swimming costumes and Landreth’s own personal journey swimming in lidos.
It is a really enjoyable book, and well worth reading. Landreth has a seriously dry sense of humour as well as has some fairly forthright feminist views. However, given some of the petty reasons that women were denied that right to swim, you can see why.… (plus d'informations)