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  • Skating Away from the Binary

    by Erica Rand ...
    Series series Forerunners: Ideas First
    Reimagining sport beyond the gender binary, where movement and identity break free from traditionSkating Away from the Binary takes a critical look at the ways gender binarism remains deeply embedded in sport, with a focus on pairs figure skating. Erica Rand examines the persistence of these traditional gender structures and explores why trans-hostile sports policies are on the rise, even among ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Leisure, Racism, and National Populist Politics

    Edited by Aarti Ratna, Erica Rand, Daniel Burdsey, Stanley Thangaraj ...
    Leisure, Racism, and National Populist Politics responds to the rise and revival of nationalistic, ethnocentric, and authoritarian forms of hegemony, power, and control. Importantly, as a collection of essays, it foregrounds and (re)politicises debates around race and racism, recognising the significance of leisure spaces to the emergence of bottom-up, polymorphous, and dynamic forms of community, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Ellis Island Snow Globe

    by Erica Rand ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In The Ellis Island Snow Globe, Erica Rand, author of the smart and entertaining book Barbie’s Queer Accessories, takes readers on an unconventional tour of Ellis Island, the migration station turned heritage museum, and its neighbor, the Statue of Liberty. By pausing to reflect on what is and is not on display at these two iconic national monuments, Rand focuses attention on whose heritage is ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Barbie's Queer Accessories

    by Erica Rand ...
    Series series Series Q
    She’s skinny, white, and blond. She’s Barbie—an icon of femininity to generations of American girls. She’s also multiethnic and straight—or so says Mattel, Barbie’s manufacturer. But, as Barbie’s Queer Accessories demonstrates, many girls do things with Barbie never seen in any commercial. Erica Rand looks at the corporate marketing strategies used to create Barbie’s versatile (She’s a rapper! She ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Small Book of Hip Checks

    On Queer Gender, Race, and Writing

    by Erica Rand ...
    Series series Writing Matters!
    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 ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Red Nails, Black Skates

    Gender, Cash, and Pleasure on and off the Ice

    by Erica Rand ...
    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 ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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    by Danielle J. Lindemann, PhD ...
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  • Heritage

    Critical Approaches

    by Rodney Harrison ...
    Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museums…we live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling up of historic materials in the present? How did heritage grow from the concern of a handful of enthusiasts and specialists in one part of the world to something which is considered to be universally ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Bad Feminist

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  • Multicultiphobia

    by Phil Ryan ...
    Official multiculturalism, established as Canadian government policy in 1971, has drawn criticism from many scholars and journalists who view it as a potential threat to a strong, unified Canadian society. In this timely and original book, Phil Ryan examines the emergence and influence of these criticisms, which continue to provoke an anxiety he calls "multicultiphobia." Although Ryan argues that ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Fair Play

    How Sports Shape the Gender Debates

    by Katie Barnes ...
    “[An] electrifying debut…Through in-depth and compassionate reporting, Barnes breaks down the misunderstood science surrounding sex and gender that has been used to keep cisgender women out of sports and has fueled debate over trans athletes participation in women’s sports.”—Shannon Carlin, TIMEmagazine, “100 Must-Read Books of 2023”For decades women have been playing competitive sports, thanks in ... Read more

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  • Home and Native Land

    Unsettling Multiculturalism in Canada

    Edited by May Chazan, Lisa Helps, Anna Stanley, Sonali Thakkar ...
    Home and Native Land takes its vastly important topic and places it under a new, penetrating light–shifting focus from the present grounds of debate onto a more critical terrain.The book’s articles, by some of the foremost critical thinkers and activists on issues of difference, diversity, and Canadian policy, challenge sedimented thinking on the subject of multiculturalism. Not merely “another ... Read more

    $20.99 USD