Author: Isabelle Brasseur
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780771573934
Category : Figure skating
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Isabelle Brasseur
Publisher: Bolton, Ont. : Fenn Pub.
ISBN: 9781551682358
Category : Skaters
Languages : en
Pages : 504

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Author: Mary Louise Adams
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442643188
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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In contemporary North America, figure skating ranks among the most 'feminine' of sports and few boys take it up for fear of being labelled effeminate or gay. Yet figure skating was once an exclusively male pastime - women did not skate in significant numbers until the late 1800s, at least a century after the founding of the first skating club. Only in the 1930s did figure skating begin to acquire its feminine image. Artistic Impressions is the first history to trace figure skating's striking transformation from gentlemen's art to 'girls' sport.' With a focus on masculinity, Mary Louise Adams examines how skating's evolving gender identity has been reflected on the ice and in the media, looking at rules, technique, and style and at ongoing debates about the place of 'art' in sport. Uncovering the little known history of skating, Artistic Impressions shows how ideas about sport, gender, and sexuality have combined to limit the forms of physical expression available to men.

Author: Isabelle Brasseur
Publisher: CDG Books Canada
ISBN: 9780771576706
Category : Skaters
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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The sequel to the 1996 bestseller Brasseur & Eisler -- To Catch a Dream, this exciting book details the lives and careers of the tremendously popular skating duo after they went pro. In the same 'he said-she said' format of their first book, Brasseur and Eisler: The Professional Years, takes readers backstage -- to competitions, tours, television specials, shows and exhibitions -- and gives a firsthand look at the couple in action. Known for their 'no-holds-barred' manner, Lloyd and Isabel are sure to ruffle feathers in the skating world as they talk about judging, competitions, promoters, agents and even other figure skaters. The book also examines the skaters' personal lives and their complex, emotional and sometimes turbulent relationship with each other.

Author: Steve Milton
Publisher: Firefly Books
ISBN: 9781554073245
Category : Figure skaters
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A beautifully illustrated celebration of the best athletes from this widly popular sport.

Author: James R. Hines
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810870851
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Figure skating is the most popular televised sport at the Olympic Winter Games and is the oldest of the winter sports, having first been contested at the Games of the fourth Olympiad in London in 1908. No other sport creates such a perfect balance between athleticism and artistry, and the athletes—many of them household names like Oksana Baiul, Brian Boitano, Nancy Kerrigan, Evan Lysacek, Katarina Witt, and Kristi Yamaguchi—spend years in training to make it look effortless. The Historical Dictionary of Figure Skating relates the history of the sport through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, appendixes, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries on hundreds of skaters, past and present, but also on skating countries, governing bodies, skating disciplines, technical elements, skating styles, and many other subjects. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the history of figure skating.

Author: Prouse Lynda
Publisher: World Audience Inc
ISBN: 1934209805
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Based on the candid and sometimes startling conversations that YOU were never meant to hear, THE TONYA TAPES, written by award-winning author Lynda D. Prouse, chronicles the life of the world's most infamous female athlete -- TONYA HARDING -- revealing for the first time the whole truth of her difficult and amazing life on and off the ice. Based on actual, extensive interviews with Tonya Harding, and written with her collaboration, this is her story!

Author: Rod Black
Publisher: Infact Publishing
ISBN: 9781896092027
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Author: Patty Cranston
Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y. ; Toronto : Kids Can Press
ISBN: 9781550744002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44

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A non-fiction book for children

Author: Joy Goodwin
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Exhaustively researched by a skating insider, this book details the dramatic behind-the-scenes story of the controversial 2002 Olympic pair skating competition and the scandal that made front-page headlines around the world.