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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rand, Erica, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Figure skating > Social aspects.
Figure skaters.
Sex role.
Patinage artistique > Aspect social.
Patineurs artistiques.
Rôle selon le sexe.
sex role.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Ice & Figure Skating.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gay Studies.
Figure skaters
Sex role
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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