Acknowledgments vii Introduction. Skate to Write, Write to Skate 1 I. Seeing and Getting: Notes on Fieldwork Introduction. Being in Deep 17 1. Seeing and Getting 20 2. Sandbagging, or Grown-Ups Do This? 26 3. Score 32 II. Skating Is Like Sex, Except When It Isn't Introduction.

Pleasure Points 43 4. Skating Is Like Sex, Except When It Isn't 46 5. The End of Me, or My Brief Life in Hockey 52 6. When God Gets Involved 60 III. Hooks Introduction. Redoing the Laces 71 7. White Skates Become You 73 8. Form-Fitting: The Bra in Three Stories 79 9.

My Grandmother's Shoes 85 10. Black Skates, or the Stake in Wanting 89 IV. Ladies Introduction. Athletic, Artistic, or Just Plain Perverse 97 11. Skank or Ballerina: Codes of the Crotch Shot 103 12. Cracking the Normative 111 13. Oh, Right, Policing Femininity: Nine Inch Nails at Adult Nationals 117 14. Booty Block: Raced Femininity 128 V.

Masculine Wiles Introduction. Masculinity with Teeth 139 15. "I Stand beside Him with an Axe!": Hockey Guys Together 144 16. Quads Make the Man, or What's too Gay for Men's Figure Skating 153 17. The Girl who Fooled by Butchdar 160 VI. Having the Wherewithal Introduction. Up from the Botton 169 18. Buy-In: Some Notes on Cost 174 19.

So You Think You can Train, or Why Can Joshua Dance? 180 20. Gifts of Nature, Freaks of Culture 186 VII. Blade Scars/Biopsy Scars: Rethinking Risk and Choice Introduction. Blade Scars/Biopsy Scars 199 21. Parsing Perilicious 204 22. Telling the Mrs. 210 23. What Sticks Out 215 24.

Losing her Manhood 219 VIII. The Politics of Pleasure 25. Pleasure on Its Face 227 26. Politics at Hand 235 27. Getting the Goods 242 Conclusion. If I Ruled the Rink, or Make the Rink by Skating 249 Notes 263 Bibliography 285 Index 297.