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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Rand, Erica, 1958-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London : Duke University Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Sex role.
Figure skaters.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gay Studies.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Ice & Figure Skating.
sex role.
Rôle selon le sexe.
Patineurs artistiques.
Patinage artistique > Aspect social.
Figure skating > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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