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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Cynthia BaughmanPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.560kg ISBN: 9780415911511ISBN 10: 0415911516 Pages: 300 Publication Date: 17 October 1995 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsI: 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 TonyaReviewsThe 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 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 The soap opera from hell explained with a genderized twist. <br>-<br>A Weekly <br> 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. <br>- IN These Times, Dec.25, 1995 <br> 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. <br>- Philosophy and Literature <br>... 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. <br>- Newsday, Sun., Nov.19, 1995 <br> Author InformationCynthia Baughman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema and Photography at Ithaca College. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |