Women On Ice

Feminist Responses to the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan Spectacle

Cynthia Baughman

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Routledge
17 October 1995

Media studies; Feminism & feminist theory; Ice-skating

"Following the brutal attack on Nancy Kerrigan at the 1994 US figure Skating Championships Women on Ice is a

critique of the ice skating soap opera by serious feminist academics, journalists and critics who were intrigued with the depiction of this event in the media and society. The essays explore a number of disturbing issues raised by this scandal: the roles women are meant to play in public (and that public women are meant to play in private), the prices extracted for violations of our notions of femininity, fantasies about social class and upward mobility, the ways in which the media reaffirm gender and cultural sterotypes. the ways our culture thinks about class, gender, ""womanly conduct"", and

female athletes. Contributors include: Susan Bordo, Susan Jeffords, Marjorie Garber, Lynn Spigel and B. Ruby Rich."

Edited by: Cynthia Baughman
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 560g
ISBN: 9780415911511
ISBN 10: 0415911516
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 17 October 1995
Audience: College/higher education , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

I: Skating; 1: Nancy and Tonya and Sonja; 2: “A Radiant Smile from the Lovely Lady”; 3: Pure Desire; 4: What Tonya Harding Means to Me, or Images of Independent Female Power on Ice; 5: Fear of Falling; II: Pairs; 6: Viktor Petrenko's Mother-in-Law; 7: Tonya's Bad Boot, or, Go Figure; 8: Feminists on Thin Ice; 9: The Glass Slipper; III: Television Spectacles; 10: Tales of the Ice Princess and the Trash Queen; 11: A Skater is Being Beaten; 12: Cool Medium on Ice; 13: Narrative, Gender, and TV News; IV: Fantasies; 14: An American Tragedy; 15: Tonya, Nancy, and the Bodily Figuration of Social Class; 16: Tonya, Nancy, and the Dream Scheme; 17: The Olympics and Post-Cold War Femininities; 18: Dreaming of Tonya

Cynthia Baughman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College.

Reviews for Women On Ice: Feminist Responses to the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan Spectacle

The soap opera from hell explained with a genderized twist. -- A Weekly The contributors of Women on Ice, all aficionados of the forever up-and-coming academic discipline of cultural studies, scrutinize the Kerrigan-Harding wars in ways that have nothing to do with sports but everything to do with winners and losers in America. -- IN These Times,Dec.25, 1995 That these passages constitute bad writing is merely our opinion. It is arguable that anyone wanting to pursue an academic career should assiduously imitate such styles as are represented here. These are your role models. -- Philosophy and Literature ...most essays in this collection are are as intellectually agile, impudent and occasionally dazzling as one of Surya Bonaly's trademark backflips...There's also a nifty glossary of skating terms in the back of the book that'll be a must-have TV accessory for the next Olympics. -- Newsday, Sun.,Nov.19, 1995