{"product_id":"red-nails-black-skates-9780822352082","title":"Red Nails Black Skates","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRand took up figure skating at age 43. As she became increasingly immersed in the world of adult competition (participating in the Gay Games and the Adult Nationals), she found herself focusing her research on the world of skating. These essays reflect on the sexualization of female skaters, the hairdos and costumes, and racial bias in movement genres and athletic standards.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I really enjoyed Erica Rand's study of gender, politics, and the pleasure of skating; she has a love for the sport and a critical eye to what is going on at and under the surface. . . . Figure skating is an area where sport, gender, sex, politics, money, and race come together in a fascinating way. Erica Rand's writing combines the personal details of her life and experiences as a skater with research into different aspects of sport and gender theory. . . . The book is accessible to skating enthusiasts and well worth reading. If you're looking for ways to pass the time before the 2012-13 skating season starts, definitely consider picking up this book.” - Caroline Land, \u003ci\u003eCrowding the Book Truck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” - \u003ci\u003eDiva\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Rand’s] personal love for skating shines through the essays collected in \u003ci\u003eRed Nails, Black Skates\u003c\/i\u003e, leading to an incisive yet upbeat analysis of both the sport's shortcomings and the depths of its potential.” - Dani Alexis Ryskamp\u003ci\u003e, Shelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I recently sacrificed hours of sleep to read \u003ci\u003eRed Nails, Black Skates: Gender, Cash and Pleasure On and Off the Ice\u003c\/i\u003e by Erica Rand. The short essays in the book present the witty, emotional and often hilarious insights of a professor who took up competitive adult skating fuelled by a love of skating and a desire to think about the gender and social norms that seem so natural to the sport.” - Tina Chen, \u003ci\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“As a figure skater herself, [Rand] explores the gender policing that plagues her beloved sport, presenting her personal journey in a breezy blend of anecdotes that also hit on tough topics like queer identity, race, class, sex,\u003cbr\u003eand money. . . . For an academic, Rand's writing is surprisingly light thanks\u003cbr\u003eto her humor and honesty, the latter being one of the book's great strengths.” - Mai Nguyen,\u003ci\u003e Bitch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Rather than being overly academic, \u003ci\u003eRed Nails \u003c\/i\u003eis smart and witty and warmly personal, a fascinating read for anyone interested in LGBT sports and queer lives.“ - Diane Anderson-Minshall, \u003ci\u003eThe Advocate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRed Nails, Black Skates\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"—\u003cb\u003eJennifer Doyle\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eSex Objects: Art and the Dialectics of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e and the feminist soccer blog \u003ci\u003eFrom a Left Wing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"—\u003cb\u003eHelen Carroll\u003c\/b\u003e, Sports Project Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights\u003cbr\u003e“[Rand’s] personal love for skating shines through the essays collected in \u003ci\u003eRed Nails, Black Skates\u003c\/i\u003e, leading to an incisive yet upbeat analysis of both the sport's shortcomings and the depths of its potential.” -- Dani Alexis Ryskamp * Shelf Awareness *\u003cbr\u003e“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 *\u003cbr\u003e“I really enjoyed Erica Rand's study of gender, politics, and the pleasure of skating; she has a love for the sport and a critical eye to what is going on at and under the surface. . . . Figure skating is an area where sport, gender, sex, politics, money, and race come together in a fascinating way. Erica Rand's writing combines the personal details of her life and experiences as a skater with research into different aspects of sport and gender theory. . . . The book is accessible to skating enthusiasts and well worth reading. If you're looking for ways to pass the time before the 2012-13 skating season starts, definitely consider picking up this book.” -- Caroline Land * Crowding the Book Truck *\u003cbr\u003e“Rather than being overly academic, \u003ci\u003eRed Nails \u003c\/i\u003eis smart and witty and warmly personal, a fascinating read for anyone interested in LGBT sports and queer lives.“ -- Diane Anderson-Minshall * The Advocate *\u003cbr\u003e\"I recently sacrificed hours of sleep to read \u003ci\u003eRed Nails, Black Skates: Gender, Cash and Pleasure On and Off the Ice\u003c\/i\u003e by Erica Rand. The short essays in the book present the witty, emotional and often hilarious insights of a professor who took up competitive adult skating fuelled by a love of skating and a desire to think about the gender and social norms that seem so natural to the sport.” -- Tina Chen * Winnipeg Free Press *\u003cbr\u003e“This is a captivating book that is, simultaneously, all about, and not just about, figure skating. . . . Read this book if you contemplate pleasure and\/or seek an understanding of pleasure. The ultimate pleasure in this project, for the reader, may lie in her mapping the interactions among bodies that both complicate and simplify being happy within your own skin.” -- Angeletta KM Gourdin * Feminist Formations *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRed Nails, Black Skates\u003c\/i\u003e is a good read, bringing together critique of the sociopolitics of figure skating with numerous everyday facets of Rand’s life. … Feminized sports are often dismissed by dominant culture, making her contribution to critical sport and gender studies ever more important. Rand’s book is pleasurable, not only for its engaging narratives about the intricacies of the skating world, but also for critical analysis of sport and athletic life.” -- Claire Carter * GLQ *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Skate to Write, Write to Skate 1\u003cbr\u003e I. Seeing and Getting: Notes on Fieldwork \u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Being in Deep 17\u003cbr\u003e 1. Seeing and Getting 20\u003cbr\u003e 2. Sandbagging, or Grown-Ups Do This? 26\u003cbr\u003e 3. Score 32\u003cbr\u003e II. Skating Is Like Sex, Except When It Isn't \u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Pleasure Points 43\u003cbr\u003e 4. Skating Is Like Sex, Except When It Isn't 46\u003cbr\u003e 5. The End of Me, or My Brief Life in Hockey 52\u003cbr\u003e 6. When God Gets Involved 60\u003cbr\u003e III. Hooks \u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Redoing the Laces 71\u003cbr\u003e 7. White Skates Become You 73\u003cbr\u003e 8. Form-Fitting: The Bra in Three Stories 79\u003cbr\u003e 9. My Grandmother's Shoes 85\u003cbr\u003e 10. Black Skates, or the Stake in Wanting 89\u003cbr\u003e IV. Ladies \u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Athletic, Artistic, or Just Plain Perverse 97\u003cbr\u003e 11. Skank or Ballerina: Codes of the Crotch Shot 103\u003cbr\u003e 12. Cracking the Normative 111\u003cbr\u003e 13. Oh, Right, Policing Femininity: Nine Inch Nails at Adult Nationals 117\u003cbr\u003e 14. Booty Block: Raced Femininity 128\u003cbr\u003e V. Masculine Wiles \u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Masculinity with Teeth 139\u003cbr\u003e 15. \"I Stand beside Him with an Axe!\": Hockey Guys Together 144\u003cbr\u003e 16. Quads Make the Man, or What's too Gay for Men's Figure Skating 153\u003cbr\u003e 17. The Girl who Fooled by Butchdar 160\u003cbr\u003e VI. Having the Wherewithal \u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Up from the Botton 169\u003cbr\u003e 18. Buy-In: Some Notes on Cost 174\u003cbr\u003e 19. So You Think You can Train, or Why Can Joshua Dance? 180\u003cbr\u003e 20. Gifts of Nature, Freaks of Culture 186\u003cbr\u003e VII. Blade Scars\/Biopsy Scars: Rethinking Risk and Choice \u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Blade Scars\/Biopsy Scars 199\u003cbr\u003e 21. Parsing Perilicious 204\u003cbr\u003e 22. Telling the Mrs. 210\u003cbr\u003e 23. What Sticks Out 215\u003cbr\u003e 24. Losing her Manhood 219\u003cbr\u003e VIII. The Politics of Pleasure \u003cbr\u003e 25. Pleasure on Its Face 227\u003cbr\u003e 26. Politics at Hand 235\u003cbr\u003e 27. Getting the Goods 242\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. If I Ruled the Rink, or Make the Rink by Skating 249\u003cbr\u003e Notes 263\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 285\u003cbr\u003e Index 297","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406069932375,"sku":"9780822352082","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822352082.jpg?v=1730494423","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/red-nails-black-skates-9780822352082","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}