The Small Book of Hip Checks: On Queer Gender, Race, and Writing by Erica Rand (

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE The Small Book of Hip Checks by Erica Rand Erica Rand uses multiple meanings of hip check—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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. Author Biography Erica Rand is Professor of Art and Visual Culture and of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Bates College and author of Red Nails, Black Skates: Gender, Cash, and Pleasure on and off the Ice, The Ellis Island Snow Globe, and Barbies Queer Accessories, all also published by Duke University Press. Table of Contents Acknowledgments vii Hip Check. An Introduction in Four Parts 1 1. If Men Dont Have Hips, How Can They Hip-Check? 2. Showing and Telling: Debi Thomass Unitard and the Racing of the Obscence 3. Deep into Drivel: A Burger King Pride Stunt, Mundane Racism, and the Rainbow 4. TV Evidence for the Transgender Tipping Point 5. A Lothario in Gendered Jeans 6. Hide and Seek: In the Afterlives of the Dorothy Hamill Haircut 7. Consensual Gender 8. Clocking the Natural 9. Gifts and Givens 10. Page 27 of The Godfather and the Evidence of Memory 11. Queer Indirections 12. Clocking the Unnatural: On the History of the Lavender Dildo 13. Cis-Skeletal 14. Its on the Template Conclusion. Hip-Checked Afterword. Hip-Check Your Writing—An Exercise Notes Index Review "Erica Rands focus on writing and revising, her nuanced close readings, and her engaging and innovative prose make The Small Book of Hip Checks a unique and inviting book. This is an important contribution to conversations in trans studies, queer studies, and feminist studies of the body." -- Toby Beauchamp, author of * Going Stealth: Transgender Politics and U.S. Surveillance Practices *"In this wonderful book, hip checks provide the ground for asking urgent questions, the methodology for exploring the questions, and the means for rethinking what we thought we knew. Written by a leading cultural studies theorist, The Small Book of Hip Checks is theoretically brilliant and warmly personal." -- Eithne Luibhéid, author of * Pregnant on Arrival: Making the Illegal Immigrant *"In these essays, Rand hip checks the NBA, ballet dancer Misty Copeland, a Burger King ad campaign for the Proud Whopper situated at a Pride parade, blue jeans, a somewhat pornographic moment in Mario Puzos novel The Godfather that was secretly circulated among her classmates, and, toward the end, lavender-colored dildos. She not only asks readers to question their assumptions, she also performs that inquiry through her writing." -- Linda Levitt * Popmatters *"The Small Book of Hip Checks, with its jerking, twisting, and nonlinearity, is a corporeal experience for writer and reader alike. Rands wit, empathy, and care for her subjects make the experience both challenging and pleasurable, a text about our role as embodied readers and writers who traverse various social positions. The Small Book of Hip Checks is a piece of scholarship intended not only for scholars of gender, sexuality, and race, but for readers in any field seeking alternative modes of inquiry within their work and writing." -- Eileen DiPofi * Criticism * Review Quote "In this wonderful book, hip checks provide the ground for asking urgent questions, the methodology for exploring the questions, and the means for rethinking what we thought we knew. Written by a leading cultural studies theorist, The Small Book of Hip Checks is theoretically brilliant and warmly personal." Details ISBN1478011483 Author Erica Rand Short Title The Small Book of Hip Checks Publisher Duke University Press Series Writing Matters! Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1478011483 ISBN-13 9781478011484 Format Paperback Publication Date 2021-01-07 Subtitle On Queer Gender, Race, and Writing Pages 152 DEWEY 305.3 UK Release Date 2021-01-07 Imprint Duke University Press Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2021-01-07 NZ Release Date 2021-01-07 US Release Date 2021-01-07 Edited by Anne K. Rasmussen Birth 1938 Affiliation Neoma Business Sch, France Position Illustrator Qualifications OBE,QC Illustrations 1 illustration Alternative 9781478010487 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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