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Red nails, black skates : gender, cash, and pleasure on and off the ice /

Rand 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 hai...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rand, Erica, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Seeing and getting: notes on fieldwork
  • Skating is like sex, except when it isn't
  • Hooks
  • Ladies
  • Masculine wiles
  • Having the wherewithal
  • Blade scars/biopsy scars: rethinking risk and choice
  • The politics of pleasure.