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Cargando... Red nails, black skates : gender, cash, and pleasure on and off the ice (edición 2012)por Erica Rand
Información de la obraRed Nails, Black Skates: Gender, Cash, and Pleasure on and off the Ice por Erica Rand
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In her forties, Erica Rand bought a pair of figure skates to vary her workout routine. Within a few years, the college professor was immersed in adult figure skating. Here, in short, incisive essays, she describes the pleasures to be found in the rink, as well as the exclusionary practices that make those pleasures less accessible to some than to others. Throughout the book, Rand situates herself as a queer femme, describing her mixed feelings about participating in a sport with heterosexual story lines and rigid standards for gender-appropriate costumes and moves. She chronicles her experiences competing in the Gay Games and at the annual U.S. Adult National Figure Skating Championship, or "Adult Nationals"; Aided by her comparative study of roller derby and women's hockey, including a brief attempt to play hockey herself, she addresses matters such as skate color conventions, judging systems, racial and sexual norms, transgender issues in sports, and the economics of athletic participation and risk taking. Mixing sharp critique with genuine appreciation and delight, Rand suggests ways to make figure skating more inclusive, while portraying the unlikely friendships facilitated by sports and the sheer elation of gliding on ice. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I'm still interested in most of those things (but not so much figure skating after having broken my ankle doing a back scratch spin) but this book was just not interesting. Perhaps it was too long. Perhaps it lacked a unifying theme. The book consists of many essays, which nominally revolve around the author's being an adult figure skater. This lack of cohesion meant that many of the essays rambled and ultimately went nowhere. The author brought up a lot of points about gender identity and race and lack of inclusion in elite sports, but didn't really take it anywhere.
Obviously, I didn't hate this book, or I would have stopped reading it much sooner. I kept going with the book in hopes that the book would finally arrive at some sort of destination. But it didn't. ( )