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GUARDED takes readers inside the hidden world of California's first women ocean lifeguards.
In the late 1970s, every beach was run by men who claimed the biggest surf and the gnarliest conditions. Women were met with raised eyebrows: Can she cut it here?
On a cold, foggy morning in 1978, eighteen-year-old Debbie Friedman stood in the sand at Huntington Beach with one hundred men. The starting gun fired. She charged into the surf-and into a new life.
What followed was immersion into a fiercely competitive, insular beach culture shaped by life-and-death consequences and entrenched ideas about who belonged. As one of the first women hired, Friedman stepped into a lifeguard world that did not include women.
Blending personal narrative with the rarely told stories of other women who entered the profession, GUARDED captures a pivotal era on the California coast-intensely physical, funny, exhilarating, and deeply human.
You'll never look at lifeguarding the same way again.About the Author
Friedman, Debbie: - Debbie Friedman was one of the first women hired as an ocean lifeguard in California, beginning in 1978 at San Clemente and Huntington State Beaches. When she could find no stories about her generation of first women lifeguards, she wrote this book to share their experiences.As she took a deep dive into the past, she discovered women who saved lives-each story unique, yet bound by a common purpose and a desire to serve.Her memoir, GUARDED: Women, Water, and Saving Lives, blends personal narrative with rarely shared history to tell the story of a generation of women who changed lifeguarding forever.She lives in Santa Cruz County, California, where she still swims and walks the coast.
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