Czech ‘Em Out Book Club meets on the third Monday of each month with NCSML volunteer Steve Pederson in the Skala Bartizal Library following the reading of each months selected book. You can purchase this month’s book from the Museum Store.
August’s selection — Women’s Voices in Rowing, by Daniela Nachazelova
14 women. 14 rowers. 14 stories.
Sport is fascinating and exciting but not always fair. And rowing is no exception. In spite of gender inequality, behind-the-scenes machinations, financial injustice and other errors in the system, it attracts women all over the world to dedicate their time, passion and energy to row, to become a coach and maybe fight for better conditions of rowers in general.
Dive in remarkable testimonies of incredible and tough women from Canada, Czech Republic, Great Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, United States of America, and South Africa who talk about their rowing experience, their lives that have been affected by the sport where you go backwards. These women reveal their victories and losses, their challenges and fears but also about their ideas on how to make the world of rowing a safer and equal environment. Through different generations of female rowers, we are able to witness the evolution of rowing.
About the Author:
Daniela Nachazelova, at the age of 10, told her father she wanted to start rowing. Why, he asked? Because it is the best sport in the world… Daniela learned her first rowing strokes on the Vltava river in Prague, Czech Republic, her homeland. During her successful rowing career she received a rowing scholarship to Washington State University and collected medals at world cups and world championships. Now, Daniela is one of the first women speaking out about the struggles of female professional rowers.
