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Women on ice : feminist essays on the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan spectacle

Title
Women on ice : feminist essays on the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan spectacle / edited by Cynthia Baughman.
Publication
New York : Routledge, 1995.

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Baughman, Cynthia.
Description
xiv, 285 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Women skaters > Social conditions
  • Women skaters > Conduct of life
  • Women in mass media
  • Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media
  • Feminist criticism
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
  • 1. Nancy and Tonya and Sonja: The Figure of the Figure Skater in American Entertainment / Jane Feuer -- 2. "A Radiant Smile from the Lovely Lady": Overdetermined Femininity in "Ladies" Figure Skating / Abigail M. Feder -- 3. Pure Desire / Laura Jacobs -- 4. What Tonya Harding Means to Me, or Images of Independent Female Power on Ice / Ellyn Kestnbaum -- 5. Fear of Falling / Judith Mayne -- 6. Viktor Petrenko's Mother-in-Law / Marjorie Garber -- 7. Tonya's Bad Boot, or, Go Figure / Robyn Wiegman and Lynda Zwinger -- 8. Feminists on Thin Ice: Re-Fusing Dualism in the Narrative of Nancy and Tonya / Diane Raymond -- 9. The Glass Slipper / Melanie Thernstrom -- 10. Tales of the Ice Princess and the Trash Queen: Cultural Fictions and the Production of "Women" / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis -- 11. A Skater is Being Beaten / Mimi White -- 12. Cool Medium on Ice: Tonya, Nancy, and TV / Lynn Spigel --
  • 13. Narrative, Gender, and TV News: Comparing Network and Tabloid Stories / Jill Dianne Swenson -- 14. An American Tragedy / Stacey D'Erasmo -- 15. Tonya, Nancy, and the Bodily Figuration of Social Class / Sam Stoloff -- 16. Tonya, Nancy, and the Dream Scheme: Nationalizing the 1994 Olympics / Marsha Kinder -- 17. The Olympics and Post-Cold War Femininities: Tonya and Nancy / Zillah R. Eisenstein and Patricia R. Zimmermann -- 18. Dreaming of Tonya / Cynthia Baughman -- Appendix I: A Glossary of Skating Terms / Ellyn Kestnbaum -- Appendix II: Scoring of Singles Figure Skating Competitions (or how Nancy Kerrigan missed winning a gold medal at Lillehammer) / Ellyn Kestnbaum.
ISBN
  • 0415911508
  • 0415911516
LCCN
95024887
OCLC
  • 32922466
  • ocm32922466
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries