Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters - Softcover

Ryan, Joan

 
9781538747780: Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1538747782 ISBN 13: 9781538747780
Verlag: Grand Central Publishing, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Welcome to the world of women's gymnastics and figure skating--the real world that happens away from the cameras, at the training camps and in the private lives of these talented teenage competitors. From starvation diets and debilitating injuries to the brutal tactics of tyrannical gymnastics guru Béla Károlyi, Little Girls in Pretty Boxes portrays the horrors endured by girls at the hands of their coaches and sometimes their own families--and is now updated with a new introduction and foreword that address the sexual abuse scandal perpetrated by USA Gymnastics national team doctor, Larry Nassar. This groundbreaking book shows how a longstanding culture of abuse made young gymnasts perfect targets for a sexual predator, and continues to plead for sanity, safety, and an end to our national obsession: winning at any cost.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joan Ryan is an award-winning journalist and the author of four books. Her groundbreaking book Little Girls in Pretty Boxes was named one of the Top 100 Sports Books of All Time by Sports Illustrated and one of the Top 50 Sports Books of All Time by the Guardian. Throughout her career, Ryan has been awarded thirteen Associated Press Sports Editors awards, the National Headliner Award, the Women's Sports Foundation's Journalism Award and the Fabulous Feminist Award from the San Francisco chapter of NOW. She is a founding trustee of Coaching Corps in Oakland, CA, and the Association of Women in Sports Media. Since 2008, she has been a media consultant with the San Francisco Giants.

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Verlag
Grand Central Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1538747782
ISBN 13 
9781538747780
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
325
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