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Once a winter pastime for socializing and courtship, skating evolved into the wildly popular competitive sport of figure skating, one of the few athletic arenas where female athletes hold a public profile--and earning power--equal to that of men.   Renowned sports historian James R. Hines chronicles figure skating's rise from its earliest days through its head-turning debut at the 1908 Olympics and its breakthrough as entertainment in the 1930s. Hines credits figure skating's explosive expansion to an ever-increasing number of women who had become proficient skaters and wanted to compete, not just in singles but with partners as well.   Matters reached a turning point when British skater Madge Syers entered the otherwise-male 1902 World Championship held in London and finished second. Called skating's first feminist, Syers led a wave of women who made significant contributions to figure skating and helped turn it into today's star-making showcase at every Winter Olympics.   Packed with stories and hard-to-find details, Figure Skating in the Formative Years tells the early history of a sport loved and followed by fans around the world.

Daughters of a British father and a Chinese mother, Edith and Winnifred Eaton pursued wildly different paths. This title departs boldly from the dichotomy that has informed most commentary on them: Edith's authentic representations of Chinese North Americans versus Winnifred's phony portrayals of Japanese characters and settings.

An ethnography on how individuals and groups confront uncertainty in all areas of their lives.

In a stimulating interchange between feminist studies and biology, the author explores how her dissertation on flower color variation in morning glories launched her on an intellectual odyssey that engaged the feminist studies of sciences in the experimental practices of science by tracing the central and critical idea of variation in biology.

First edition title: Coming on strong: gender and sexuality in twentieth-century women's sport.

Multifaceted analyses of the African diaspora in Europe

Waging the Cold War's ideological battles on the gridiron

An interdisciplinary collection that bridges the dichotomy between sacred and secular travel.

A study of Bill Monroe's contributions to American and world music. Spanning over 1,000 separate performances, this work presents a chronological list of Bill Monroe's commercially released sound and visual recordings.

Measuring the impact of the Chicago Teachers Union on public education in Chicago

Focusing on the steel works at Duquesne, Pennsylvania, a linchpin of the old Carnegie Steel Company Empire, and then of US Steel, the author demonstrates the pivotal role played by a nonunion form of employee representation. This is a study of the forces that shaped and responded to workers' interests.

Tells the unknown story of the business behind the bands that became an industry.

Explores the multivalent meanings of Caribbean space and community in a cross-cultural and transdisciplinary perspective.

Radicalism and Black feminism in postwar women's writing