1. Tonya Harding, Ice Skating and Controversy
... masculine and proletarian. The racial and class biases of North America have associated muscles with animality, and with lack of sensitivity and of intelligence (recall, for instance, Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire or Sylvester Stallone in Rocky (Bordo, 1993). An undercurrent of violence is also present in these biases, in the implicit assumption that the muscular, unintelligent working ... ...
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