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The small book of hip checks : on queer gender, race, and writing /
"In The Small Book of Hip Checks Erica Rand uses multiple meanings of hip check--including an athlete using their hip to throw an opponent off-balance and the inspection of racialized gender--to consider the workings of queer gender, race, and writing. Explicitly attending to processes of writi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2021.
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| Colección: | Writing matters! (Duke University Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In The Small Book of Hip Checks Erica Rand uses multiple meanings of hip check--including an athlete using their hip to throw an opponent off-balance and the inspection of racialized gender--to consider the workings of queer gender, race, and writing. Explicitly attending to processes of writing and revising, Rand pursues interruption, rethinking, and redirection to challenge standard methods of argumentation and traditional markers of heft and fluff. She writes about topics including a trans shout-out in a Super Bowl ad, the heyday of lavender dildos, ballet dancer Misty Copeland, the criticism received by figure skater Debi Thomas and tennis great Serena Williams for competing in bodysuits while Black, and the gendering involved in identifying the remains of people who die trying to cross into the United States south of Tucson, Arizona. Along the way, Rand encourages making muscle memory of experimentation and developing an openness to being conceptually knocked sideways. In other words, to be hip-checked"--Publisher's description. "Hip Checks considers the workings and inter-workings of queer gender, race, and writing, inviting a critical and writing practice involving interruption, shifting direction, and openness to being conceptually knocked sideways"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 140 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1478013079 9781478013075 |