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

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Baughman, Cynthia
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Routledge, 1995.
Subjects:	Women skaters > Social conditions. Women skaters > Conduct of life. Women in mass media. Stereotypes (Social psychology) in mass media. Feminist criticism.

Table of Contents:

Nancy and Tonya and Sonja / Jane Feuer
Radiant smile from the lovely lady / Abigail M. Feder
Pure desire / Laura Jacobs
What Tonya Harding means to me, or images of independent female power on ice / Ellyn Kestnbaum
Fear of falling / Judith Mayne
Viktor Petrenko's mother-in-law / Marjorie Garber
Tonya's bad boot, or, go figure / Robyn Wiegman and Lynda Zwinger
Feminists on thin ice / Diane Raymond
Glass slipper / Melanie Thernstrom
Tales of the ice princess and the trash queen / Sandy Flitterman-Lewis
Skater is being born / Mimi White
Cool medium on ice / Lynn Spigel
Narrative, gender, and tv news / Jill Dianne Swenson.
American tragedy / Stacey D'Erasmo
Tonya, Nancy, and the bodily figuration of social class / Sam Stoloff
Tonya, Nancy, and the dream scheme / Marsha Kinder
Olympics and post-cold war femininities / Zillah R. Eisenstein and Patricia R. Zimmermann
Dreaming of Tonya / Cynthia Baughman.