Little Girls In Pretty Boxes

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1995






Topics
Gymnastics for girls , Skating , Women athletes , Sports


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New York : Doubleday
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In the United States, it’s a culture that has been so influenced by Eastern Europe, really because of Bela Karolyi. He came over here after Nadia Comaneci, and he brought his system with him, which was a system of abuse. His job, and he says this, his job was to create gymnasts, not to create healthy young women. And other coaches followed his lead. American coaches followed his lead, because, frankly, it worked. He did create great gymnasts. Of course, we didn’t see all the bodies of the girls who didn’t make it.

^ a b Ford, Bob (1995-09-18). "How elite girl athletes are shaped, misshaped" . Milwaukee Journal Sentinel . Knight-Ridder Newspapers . p. 4 . Retrieved 2007-09-06 .

^ Abbott, Jim (1997-01-19). "TV drama looks at gymnastics, sees pain not glory" . The Orlando Sentinel . Sentinel Communications. pp. F3 . Retrieved 2007-09-06 .

^ a b c Joan Ryan (January 29, 2018). "Beyond Larry Nassar" . Slate (Interview). Interviewed by Isaac Chotiner . Retrieved 11 September 2018 .

^ a b Sjoerdsma, Ann G. (1995-07-23). "A sad comment on what seems a happy sport" . St. Petersburg Times . pp. 6D . Retrieved 2007-09-06 .

^ Hall, Kim (July 1997). "Little Girls in Pretty Boxes". Physiotherapy . 83 (7): 390. doi : 10.1016/S0031-9406(05)65805-1 .

^ Hersh, Philip (1995-06-01). "Abuse amid glamor in name of sports" . Chicago Tribune . p. 7 . Retrieved 2007-09-06 .

^ Chapman, Mark (1995-06-11). "Fall from balance beam" . Boston Herald . p. 063 . Retrieved 2007-09-06 .

^ Kornreich, Jennifer (June 23, 1995). "Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Elite Gymnasts and Figure Skaters" . Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 11 September 2018 .

^ Tofler, Ian R.; Stryer, Barri Katz; Micheli, Lyle J.; Herman, Lisa R. (1996-07-25). "Physical and Emotional Problems of Elite Female Gymnasts" . New England Journal of Medicine . 335 (4): 281–283. doi : 10.1056/NEJM199607253350412 . PMID   8657248 . Retrieved 2007-09-06 .

^ Fancher, Lou (July 24, 2018). " ' Little Girls in Pretty Boxes' sadly remains relevant" . San Francisco Examiner . Retrieved 11 September 2018 .

^ "Books: Creating Olympic Darlings / How we exploit gymnasts, skaters" . San Francisco Chronicle . 20 June 1995 . Retrieved 12 September 2018 .




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Lit­tle Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Mak­ing and Break­ing of Elite Gym­nasts and Fig­ure Skaters is a 1995 non­fic­tion book by San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle sports writer Joan Ryan de­tail­ing the dif­fi­cult train­ing reg­i­mens en­dured by young women in com­pet­i­tive sports such as gym­nas­tics and fig­ure skat­ing , pub­lished by Dou­ble­day Books . Ryan's ma­te­r­ial was largely de­rived from per­sonal in­ter­views with nearly 100 for­mer gym­nasts and fig­ure skaters as well as train­ers, sports psy­chol­o­gists, phys­i­ol­o­gists, and other ex­perts, fo­cus­ing on the phys­i­cal and emo­tional hard­ships young women en­dured for the sake of Olympic glory.

Ryan began writ­ing the book after per­form­ing re­search for a se­ries of ar­ti­cles ini­tially pub­lished in the San Fran­cisco Chronicle , where she was work­ing as a sportswriter. [1]

The book crit­i­cized con­tem­po­rary train­ing practices. [2] In a 2018 in­ter­view, Ryan stated the the­sis of the book was that abuse had be­come part of the nor­mal cul­ture of these sports. [3] Ryan ar­gues that the image of these ath­letes' beauty, glam­our, class, and so­phis­ti­ca­tion con­ceals a trou­bled re­al­ity of phys­i­cal prob­lems (weak­ened bones, stunted growth , de­bil­i­tat­ing and fatal in­juries), psy­cho­log­i­cal is­sues ( eat­ing dis­or­ders , de­pres­sion , and low self-es­teem ), and life sac­ri­fices ( drop­ping out of school, los­ing the chance to "be a child", and be­com­ing iso­lated from their peers and families). [4] While de­cry­ing these prac­tices, Ryan ad­vo­cates for sys­temic change in fig­ure skat­ing and gym­nas­tics, call­ing for raised min­i­mum-age re­quire­ments, manda­tory li­censes for coaches, care­ful scrutiny by na­tional gov­ern­ing bod­ies, and a re­quire­ment for ath­letes to re­main in reg­u­lar schools at least until they are 16. [1]

  — Joan Ryan, 2018 Slate in­ter­view [3]

Ryan pre­sented a rel­a­tively one-sided, bleak view of the sports, [5] ig­nor­ing suc­cesses like Mary Lou Ret­ton . [6] Bela Karolyi was sin­gled out for par­tic­u­lar crit­i­cism in the book [7] [8] for his in­flu­ence on USA Gym­nas­tics (USAG), which re­sulted in what she called "a sys­tem of abuse". [3] Ryan's gen­eral points have been sup­ported by med­ical ex­perts, as noted in a 1996 re­port pub­lished in the New Eng­land Jour­nal of Med­i­cine de­scrib­ing the emo­tional and phys­i­cal harm suf­fered by elite fe­male gymnasts. [9]

When Ryan was work­ing on an up­date to the book in 2000, she in­ter­viewed Nancy Thies Mar­shall, a for­mer gym­nast who was then di­rect­ing USAG's well­ness pro­gram. The well­ness pro­gram had been formed in re­sponse to the crit­i­cism USAG had re­ceived after the ini­tial pub­li­ca­tion of the book in 1995. Mar­shall had writ­ten a 100-page man­ual with 30 rec­om­men­da­tions and a re­fer­ral net­work, but the well­ness pro­gram had its bud­get slashed in half by the time Ryan con­tacted Mar­shall, and Mar­shall re­signed shortly there­after in 2001. The man­ual was praised by for­mer US na­tional sports team physi­cian and con­victed se­r­ial child mo­les­ter Larry Nas­sar in the introduction. [10]

The re­view pub­lished by the San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle , where Ryan was a sports­writer, called the book a "scathing and pro­foundly im­por­tant study." [11]

Ann Sjo­erdsma, re­view­ing for the Tampa Bay Times , added the book was "a damn­ing in­dict­ment of girls' gym­nas­tics and fig­ure skat­ing" and won­dered "if the trau­mas and tri­als that the cham­pi­ons un­dergo can ever be worth their sac­ri­fice. Con­spic­u­ously ab­sent here are happy voices. I would have liked to have heard from the 'suc­cess sto­ries'" such as Shan­non Miller , Ret­ton, Kristi Ya­m­aguchi , or Nancy Ker­ri­gan . [4]

A made for tele­vi­sion movie based on the book and star­ring Swoosie Kurtz and Court­ney Pel­don aired in 1997 on Life­time Tele­vi­sion . It por­trays a fic­tion­al­ized ac­count of a teenage girl whose fam­ily re­lo­cates to Los An­ge­les to pur­sue Olympic gold with a dif­fi­cult coach and rig­or­ous sched­ule, draw­ing on many of the sto­ries Ryan re­counts in the book. It de­picts young fe­male gym­nasts deal­ing with pre­scrip­tion painkiller abuse, skip­ping meals, en­dur­ing in­tim­i­da­tion, and gen­er­ally push­ing their bod­ies to the break­ing point in order to achieve per­fec­tion.

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