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...
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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.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780415911511 (0415911516)
ASIN: 0415911516
Publish date: 1995-10-19
Publisher: Routledge
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
The title tells it all. I am not one of those who maintains you have to have a specialist's knowledge of skating technique to comment on figure skating as a cultural phenomenon, especially not, if you are concentrating as some of these essays do, on the media packaging of the sport. Nonetheless, on...
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