Women On Ice - Feminist Responses to the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan Spectacle

The attack on Nancy Kerrigan at the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships set the stage for a Winter Olympics spectacle: Tonya versus Nancy. Women on Ice collects the writings of a diverse group of feminists who address and question our national obsession with Tonya and Nancy and what this tells us about perceptions of women in twentieth century America.

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Summary

This represents a critique of the media soap opera which unfolded after the attack on Nancy Kerrigan at the 1994 US Figure Skating Championships, with contributions by leading feminist academics, journalists and critics.

Product details

• Assisted by: Cynthia Baughman (Editor), Baughman Cynthia (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.1995
• EAN: 9780415911511
• ISBN: 978-0-415-91151-1
• No. of pages: 300
• Weight: 560 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, United States of America, USA, Feminism and feminist theory, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, ice-skating, SPORTS & RECREATION / Winter Sports / Ice & Figure Skating