Punctuated by what became ubiquitous sound bites—Tonya dashing after the tow truck, Nancy sailing the ice with one leg reaching for heaven—this melodrama parsed the transgressive hybridity of un-narrativized representative bodies back into recognizable heterovisual codes.
An Inclusive Litany
1/29/96
From "Tonya's Bad Boot," an essay by Robyn Wiegman and Linda Zwinger in
Women on Ice:
Feminist Responses to the Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan Spectacle,
edited by Cynthia Baughman and published by Routledge: