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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Erica RandPublisher: Duke University Press Imprint: Duke University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9780822351979ISBN 10: 0822351978 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 13 April 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments vii Introduction. Skate to Write, Write to Skate 1 I. Seeing and Getting: Notes on Fieldwork Introduction. Being in Deep 17 1. Seeing and Getting 20 2. Sandbagging, or Grown-Ups Do This? 26 3. Score 32 II. Skating Is Like Sex, Except When It Isn't Introduction. Pleasure Points 43 4. Skating Is Like Sex, Except When It Isn't 46 5. The End of Me, or My Brief Life in Hockey 52 6. When God Gets Involved 60 III. Hooks Introduction. Redoing the Laces 71 7. White Skates Become You 73 8. Form-Fitting: The Bra in Three Stories 79 9. My Grandmother's Shoes 85 10. Black Skates, or the Stake in Wanting 89 IV. Ladies Introduction. Athletic, Artistic, or Just Plain Perverse 97 11. Skank or Ballerina: Codes of the Crotch Shot 103 12. Cracking the Normative 111 13. Oh, Right, Policing Femininity: Nine Inch Nails at Adult Nationals 117 14. Booty Block: Raced Femininity 128 V. Masculine Wiles Introduction. Masculinity with Teeth 139 15. ""I Stand beside Him with an Axe!"": Hockey Guys Together 144 16. Quads Make the Man, or What's too Gay for Men's Figure Skating 153 17. The Girl who Fooled by Butchdar 160 VI. Having the Wherewithal Introduction. Up from the Botton 169 18. Buy-In: Some Notes on Cost 174 19. So You Think You can Train, or Why Can Joshua Dance? 180 20. Gifts of Nature, Freaks of Culture 186 VII. Blade Scars/Biopsy Scars: Rethinking Risk and Choice Introduction. Blade Scars/Biopsy Scars 199 21. Parsing Perilicious 204 22. Telling the Mrs. 210 23. What Sticks Out 215 24. Losing her Manhood 219 VIII. The Politics of Pleasure 25. Pleasure on Its Face 227 26. Politics at Hand 235 27. Getting the Goods 242 Conclusion. If I Ruled the Rink, or Make the Rink by Skating 249 Notes 263 Bibliography 285 Index 297"Reviews""Red Nails, Black Skates is a fabulous read, a smart and often hilarious account of one queer critic's journey deep into the heart of figure skating. The intricate interplay of gender, race, and class in skating culture makes it a perfect site for tackling the ways that antigay and sexist paradigms re-enforce one another, as well as anxieties about race and class. In this brilliantly written book, Erica Rand takes feminist sports studies to a new level, without sacrificing her own stories about the pleasures of figure skating and the lessons that she has learned as a skater."" Jennifer Doyle, author of Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire and the feminist soccer blog From a Left Wing ""Erica Rand brings us into the fascinating world of skating on ice. Her personal journey is riveting. In sharing it, she offers insight into the complexities of spending a lifetime immersed in her sport and tells many stories about figure skating that have not been told until now. A brilliant piece of work and a must read."" - Helen Carroll, Sports Project Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights ""Having spent most of her adult life in the world of art and feminist politics, Rand learned first hand how the sports world is dominated by inflexible gender codes and heterosexual scripts."" Sandra Scholes, The Gay and Lesbian Review ""A book of essays by self-described ""queer femme"" Rand, a figure-skating college professor who competed in the Gay Games in 2006, in which she examines the exclusionary practices in the sport (heterosexual storylines and rigidly gendered costumes, for example) but also takes time to celebrate the joy of sliding about the ice."" - Diva, June 1st 2012 ""Her [Rand's] personal love for skating shines through the essays collected in Red Nails, Black Skates, leading to an incisive yet upbeat analysis of both the sport's shortcomings and the depths of its potential."" - Dani Alexis Ryskamp Shelf Awareness for Readers, May 25th 2012 ""For an academic, Rand's writing is surprisingly light thanks to her humor and honesty, the latter being one of the book's great strengths. It's not easy to confess superficial anxieties over your appearance chapter after chapter. In the end, Rand upholds her sport by suggesting changes are budding. With more diverse displays of masculinity and femininity on the ice, it's possible the codes can one day be rewritten, or erased altogether."" Mai Nguyen, Bitch Red Nails, Black Skates is a fabulous read, a smart and often hilarious account of one queer critic's journey deep into the heart of figure skating. The intricate interplay of gender, race, and class in skating culture makes it a perfect site for tackling the ways that antigay and sexist paradigms re-enforce one another, as well as anxieties about race and class. In this brilliantly written book, Erica Rand takes feminist sports studies to a new level, without sacrificing her own stories about the pleasures of figure skating and the lessons that she has learned as a skater. --Jennifer Doyle, author of Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire and the feminist soccer blog, From a Left Wing Red Nails, Black Skates is a fabulous read, a smart and often hilarious account of one queer critic's journey deep into the heart of figure skating. The intricate interplay of gender, race, and class in skating culture makes it a perfect site for tackling the ways that antigay and sexist paradigms re-enforce one another, as well as anxieties about race and class. In this brilliantly written book, Erica Rand takes feminist sports studies to a new level, without sacrificing her own stories about the pleasures of figure skating and the lessons that she has learned as a skater. Jennifer Doyle, author of Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire and the feminist soccer blog From a Left Wing Erica Rand brings us into the fascinating world of skating on ice. Her personal journey is riveting. In sharing it, she offers insight into the complexities of spending a lifetime immersed in her sport and tells many stories about figure skating that have not been told until now. A brilliant piece of work and a must read. - Helen Carroll, Sports Project Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights Having spent most of her adult life in the world of art and feminist politics, Rand learned first hand how the sports world is dominated by inflexible gender codes and heterosexual scripts. Sandra Scholes, The Gay and Lesbian Review A book of essays by self-described queer femme Rand, a figure-skating college professor who competed in the Gay Games in 2006, in which she examines the exclusionary practices in the sport (heterosexual storylines and rigidly gendered costumes, for example) but also takes time to celebrate the joy of sliding about the ice. - Diva, June 1st 2012 Her [Rand's] personal love for skating shines through the essays collected in Red Nails, Black Skates, leading to an incisive yet upbeat analysis of both the sport's shortcomings and the depths of its potential. - Dani Alexis Ryskamp Shelf Awareness for Readers, May 25th 2012 For an academic, Rand's writing is surprisingly light thanks to her humor and honesty, the latter being one of the book's great strengths. It's not easy to confess superficial anxieties over your appearance chapter after chapter. In the end, Rand upholds her sport by suggesting changes are budding. With more diverse displays of masculinity and femininity on the ice, it's possible the codes can one day be rewritten, or erased altogether. Mai Nguyen, Bitch Red Nails, Black Skates is a fabulous read, a smart and often hilarious account of one queer critic's journey deep into the heart of figure skating. The intricate interplay of gender, race, and class in skating culture makes it a perfect site for tackling the ways that antigay and sexist paradigms re-enforce one another, as well as anxieties about race and class. In this brilliantly written book, Erica Rand takes feminist sports studies to a new level, without sacrificing her own stories about the pleasures of figure skating and the lessons that she has learned as a skater. --Jennifer Doyle, author of Sex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire and the feminist soccer blog From a Left Wing Author InformationErica Rand is Professor of Art and Visual Culture and of Women and Gender Studies at Bates College. She is the author of The Ellis Island Snow Globe and Barbie’s Queer Accessories, both also published by Duke University Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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