Red Nails, Black Skates: Gender, Cash, and Pleasure On and Off the Ice

(Duke University Press) Taking up figure skating in her 40s, Rand became immersed in the sport. In these essays, she describes both the pleasures of adult figure skating and the exclusionary practices of the sport. Situating herself as a queer femme, she addresses such matters as racial and sexual norms in skating, transgender issues in sports, and the economics of athletic participation. Rand is a professor of art and visual culture and of women and gender studies at Bates College.