Women On Ice: Feminist Responses to the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan Spectacle
Books about female ice skaters who compete (e.g., Chin, Fleming, Hamill, Yamaguchi, Trenary) are generally written for children. In this collection of feminist criticism, 18 women and one man focus on the social conditions in which women skaters conduct their lives as well as mass media stereotypes of such women. Editor Baughman (cinema and photography, Ithaca Coll.) provides an introduction to the attack on skater Kerrigan at the 1994 U.S. Figure Skating Championships that was media-cized into woman vs. woman. The glossary of skating terms and scoring techniques is helpful in coping with why Kerrigan missed winning a gold at the Winter Olympics. These are scholarly (notes, references, etc.) but definitely readable essays most libraries need in women's studies, psychology, and mass media collections.?Helen Rippier Wheeler, formerly of UC-Berkeley, SLISCopyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.