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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (125): 199–205.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Glen Thompson Studies on swimming and surfing history are reviewed. They open up new perspectives on the relationship between politics, culture, and gender. These water sports can be seen historically as political and determined by local, national, and global conditions. Each study historicizes...
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (142): 37–56.
Published: 01 January 2022
....” To elaborate on this argument, this article tracks the bikini’s achievement of propriety within a broader fashion revolution spurred by the use of high-tech fibers in swim, sleep, and support garments. It shows how an atomic ideal of “nature” arose from an imperial desire for security in the face of extreme...
FIGURES
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Radical History Review (2014) 2014 (118): 1.
Published: 01 January 2014
... lambs and Antigone?
They never give me their money.
Bill Gates, the great humanitarian,
stands upon a peak in Darien.
I said Bill, I believe this is killing me.
A sculptor sees the statue in the slab,
the shiv in the toothbrush. The stab.
I plump for Red October. Sink or swim
or wade...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2013) 2013 (116): 147–158.
Published: 01 May 2013
... in the neighborhood
and how she learned to swim with all of her cousins in a nearby swimming pool. That pool is now the
site of a local tavern. When Adams began to work with children in the area, she learned that many
had never seen Lake Michigan, despite it being only three miles east of the neighborhood...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1992) 1992 (53): 5–11.
Published: 01 May 1992
... with the natives:
I gave to some of them red caps and to others glass beads, which
they hung on their necks, and many other things of slight value, in
which they took much pleasure. They came swimming to the ships'
boats in which we were, and brought us parrots and cotton threads...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1998) 1998 (70): 169–174.
Published: 01 January 1998
... that devas-
tated Rocinha smashed the massive retaining walls that surround
these mansions, filling swimming pools with trees and mud. The
flood covered the grounds of the nearby Jockey Club. A dark,
murky brew reached to the necks of expensive (and terrified) race-
horses. Down the street...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2001) 2001 (79): 123–139.
Published: 01 January 2001
... gave
birth, their children have not been recovered and are believed to have been given
to the friends and families of the military.
A swimming pool surrounded by a high chain-link fence is another part of the
exhibit. The incongruity...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1979) 1979 (20): 181–205.
Published: 01 May 1979
... freely. Outdoor exercise was especially
recommended for women, and they learned to play baseball and
shared fully in the community frenzy for croquet in the 1860s. After
1866 women were even encouraged to swim. Oneidans clearly con-
sidered this but the beginning of a thoroughgoing reform...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2002) 2002 (84): 119–123.
Published: 01 October 2002
... romances (and
divorces), and in what seemed to me hours of footage of the dining hall, swimming
ponds, and dance hall, embraced the nontextual and nonlinguistic domain of ges-
ture, smells, posture, statement, and carriage.
In discussion...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2004) 2004 (89): 13–24.
Published: 01 May 2004
... as though they
had fought in the Falklands (Juan Forn, Nadar de noche [Swimming at Night], 1991),
and fake army volunteers prefer to be taken prisoner by the English in order to meet
the Rolling Stones (Rodrigo Fresán, Historia argentina [Argentinian History...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1997) 1997 (67): 218–222.
Published: 01 January 1997
... neighbor”-a
neighbor dreaming of those halcyon days before women and blacks
got the vote and the nerve to cast it (and him) out of sight.
OUT OF SYNC
Buried in all the hoopla surrounding the summer Olympics was the
abortive attempt of France’s synchronized swimming team to per-
form a number...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1999) 1999 (74): 65–95.
Published: 01 May 1999
...-and pictures drive the message home: don’t swim in
the water, don’t drink the water, and don’t eat the fish? The slough
water is toxic and poses a severe risk to members of the North Portland
communities who, despite the warnings, fish here for food.
Millions of gallons of Portland’s raw sewage...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1979) 1979 (21): 225–247.
Published: 01 October 1979
...."
Isobel has been stuck at home doing housework until Diantha
comes to town. Now, resuming her career as an architect, she designs
the hotel complex, "a pleasure palace," with swimming pool, billiard
rooms, card rooms, reading rooms, lounging rooms, dancing rooms,
tennis courts, roof garden...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1978) 1978 (17): 5–38.
Published: 01 May 1978
... distinguished themselves
from the mill owners and their supporters by their
recreation. The primary summer sport, both for
children and adults, consisted of swimming in the
Blackstone. The nude swimming of adolescent boys
elicited middle-class outrage, but not as much...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (63): 151–158.
Published: 01 October 1995
... or in the
movement. Perhaps because her family died when she was in col-
lege, she had to create larger families gathered from all continents
and walks of life: circles of old communist craftsmen, English social
historians, Indian vendors, Afro-Caribbean boilerrnen in swimming
baths, Rumanian cab drivers...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (147): 13–34.
Published: 01 October 2023
... or obvious physical infrastructures are vital politically, and they are what connects or links the everyday and the kind of wider forms of movement that constitute life and its others. Khalili: I don’t know about that. I’m swimming behind you, actually. This is like a mutual lovefest. I’m much more...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (1990) 1990 (46-47): 298–308.
Published: 01 May 1990
.... They make pledges and vows and covenants. Their
leaders give their names to mountains and cities and swimming
pools.1
In his autobiography, Denis Hirson satirizes his own ex-
perience of history at school and vividly captures the constraints
and problems of history teaching...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2000) 2000 (76): 15–24.
Published: 01 January 2000
... list. The literature is in no way homoge-
neous. While it includes personality manuals in the Dale Carnegie tradi-
tion (e.g., Seven Habits of Highly Effective People) and training manuals
for competitive entrepreneurialism (e.g., Harvey Mackay’s Swim with
the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive...
Journal Article
Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (125): 35–54.
Published: 01 May 2016
... in a buggy — a snapshot of the
domestic pressures that made it hard for women to commit to a sport lacking the
state support readily available to top athletes in swimming or athletics.53 Nonethe-
less, the strides made since the early 1970s, when Nicht schummeln, Liebling! pre-
sented women’s football...
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Radical History Review (1984) 1984 (28-30): 157–168.
Published: 01 May 1984
... is serving as chairperson of the history advisory committee),
these historians will be swimming against a tide of older interpre-
tations which view immigrants as “builders of America,” or alter-
nately, as passive victims of oppression. Such interpretations are
clearly more genial to the corporate...
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