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Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters Joan Ryan
Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters
Joan Ryan
Published to coincide with the Olympic Games in Atlanta, an expose of the punishing training schedules, the pressure to perform, the severe and debilitating injuries and the routine, legal and even celebrated abuse of young women which, Ryan asserts, lie at the heart of international gymnastics and figure skating.
320 pages, 8pp photos
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | July 11, 1996 |
| ISBN13 | 9780704344884 |
| Publishers | The Women's Press Ltd |
| Pages | 320 |
| Dimensions | 128 × 199 × 17 mm · 186 g |