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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "Just Don't Touch the Water"
Chapter 1. A "Peculiar Kind" of Bath: The Origin of Municipal Pools in America
Chapter 2. "A Means of Physical Culture": The Redefinition of Municipal Pools during the 1890s
Chapter 3. "A Good Investment in Health, Character, and Citizenship": Municipal Swimming Pools in the Progressive Era
Interlude: The Traumatic Early History of Fairgrounds Park Pool
Chapter 4. The "Swimming Pool Age": 1920 to 1940
Chapter 5. "One for the White Race and the Other for the Colored Race": The Onset of Racial Discrimination, 1920 to 1940
Chapter 6. "More Sensitive Than Schools": The Struggle to Desegregate Municipal Swimming Pools
Chapter 7. "Alone in the Backyard": Swimming Pools in Recent America
Conclusion: The Promise and Reality of Swimming Pools as Public Spaces
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Susanne van Zuijlen
reviewed Contested Waters A Social History of Swimming Pools in America on July 07, 2014
Contested Waters A Social History of Swimming Pools in America
I just found this in the library and thought it sounded interesting, it was. The main takeaway point is that in the early days of swimming pools (1880ish) pools were segregated by gender and class and no one cared about race. But when pools started becoming less segregated by gender (mostly in the interwar period) the pools were then segregated by race. When (after much fighting) the pools were integrated, whites normally just stopped showing up to public pools, and retreated to private club pools (also segregated) or home pools. Wiltse does a good job tracing out why this happened and what it means. Of special interest to me is that the rise of private or home pools contributed to Putnam's idea of civic retreat. Of all things, our town is finally building a city pool (I have heard rumors we never had one because of potential race issues, but I haven't confirmed that), and I am happy there will be an outdoor pool in the summer.
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