Previous articleNext article No AccessAcrobats, Contortionists, and Cute Children: The Promise and Perversity of U.S. Women's GymnasticsAnn ChisholmAnn Chisholm Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 27, Number 2Winter, 2002 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/495692 Views: 197Total views on this site Citations: 11Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 2001 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Carolina Velloso Angry Gymnastics: Representations of Simone Biles at the 2019 National and World Championships, Howard Journal of Communications 13 (Mar 2022): 1–22.https://doi.org/10.1080/10646175.2022.2053899Roslyn Kerr, N. Barker-Ruchti, A. Schubring, G. Cervin, M. Nunomura Coming of age: coaches transforming the pixie-style model of coaching in women’s artistic gymnastics, Sports Coaching Review 8, no.11 (Oct 2017): 7–24.https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2017.1391488Roslyn Kerr, Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Myrian Nunomura, Georgia Cervin, Astrid Schubring The Role of Setting in the Field: The Positioning of Older Bodies in the Field of Elite Women’s Gymnastics, Sociology 52, no.44 (Dec 2016): 727–743.https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038516674676Ignacio Ramos-Gay , Studies in Theatre and Performance 38, no.22 ( 2018): 130.https://doi.org/10.1080/14682761.2018.1451946Georgia Cervin, Roslyn Kerr, Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Astrid Schubring, Myrian Nunomura Growing up and speaking out: female gymnasts' rights in an ageing sport, Annals of Leisure Research 20, no.33 (Apr 2017): 317–330.https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2017.1310625Jenny McMahon, Natalie Barker-Ruchti Assimilating to a boy’s body shape for the sake of performance: three female athletes’ body experiences in a sporting culture, Sport, Education and Society 22, no.22 (Feb 2015): 157–174.https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2015.1013463M. H. S. Ho Tracing tears and triple axels: Media representations of Japan's women figure skaters, International Journal of Cultural Studies (Sep 2015).https://doi.org/10.1177/1367877915603760Andrea N. Eagleman Constructing gender differences: newspaper portrayals of male and female gymnasts at the 2012 Olympic Games, Sport in Society 18, no.22 (Nov 2013): 234–247.https://doi.org/10.1080/17430437.2013.854509Andrea N. Eagleman, Ryan M. Rodenberg, Soonhwan Lee From ‘hollow-eyed pixies’ to ‘team of adults’: media portrayals of Olympic women’s gymnastics before and after an increased minimum age policy, Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health 6, no.33 (Jan 2014): 401–421.https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2013.877961Natalie Barker-Ruchti Ballerinas and Pixies: a Genealogy of the Changing Female Gymnastics Body, The International Journal of the History of Sport 26, no.11 (Dec 2008): 45–62.https://doi.org/10.1080/09523360802500089 Recent Scholarship, Journal of American History 89, no.22 (Sep 2002): 752–830.https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/89.2.752