Red Nails, Black Skates
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-5208-2 (ISBN)
In her forties, Erica Rand bought a pair of figure skates to vary her workout routine. Within a few years, the college professor was immersed in adult figure skating. Here, in short, incisive essays, she describes the pleasures to be found in the rink, as well as the exclusionary practices that make those pleasures less accessible to some than to others. Throughout the book, Rand situates herself as a queer femme, describing her mixed feelings about participating in a sport with heterosexual story lines and rigid standards for gender-appropriate costumes and moves. She chronicles her experiences competing in the Gay Games and at the annual U.S. Adult National Figure Skating Championship, or "Adult Nationals"; Aided by her comparative study of roller derby and women's hockey, including a brief attempt to play hockey herself, she addresses matters such as skate color conventions, judging systems, racial and sexual norms, transgender issues in sports, and the economics of athletic participation and risk taking. Mixing sharp critique with genuine appreciation and delight, Rand suggests ways to make figure skating more inclusive, while portraying the unlikely friendships facilitated by sports and the sheer elation of gliding on ice.
Erica 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.
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
| Zusatzinfo | 14 illustrations |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 508 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ski- / Wintersport |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8223-5208-7 / 0822352087 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-5208-2 / 9780822352082 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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