Table of Contents

CoverTitleCopyrightContentsPreface: Being a Gymnast, Being a HistorianAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Origins of Women's Artistic Gymnastics2. From Amateurism to Professionalism3. Diplomacy in Gymnastics and the Olympic Movement4. Making and Breaking the Rules5. Feminine and Feminist?6. Coaching and CultureConclusionNotesBibliographyIllustration CreditsIndexBack cover

About the Author

Georgia Cervin is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia and a former international gymnast.

Reviews

"Degrees of Difficulty is an important read and makes the case for necessary changes to a sport that millions love to watch but whose institutional history few understand." --Journal of Sport History
"Georgia Cervin's Degrees of Difficulty is an enthralling analysis of elite women's gymnastics, from a scholar's and insider's view. Through carefully applied lenses of gender, race, power, and politics, Cervin exposes the historical underbelly of cheating, bribery, abuse, and political manipulation in one of the world's most popular Olympic Sports."--Kevin B. Wamsley, coauthor of Sport in Canada: A History, fourth edition