Erica Rand
Biographic Data
| ID | 117919 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erica Rand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erica |
| FAMILY NAME | Rand |
| SIGNATURE | RAND E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bates College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Good Hair, Bad Math
While most policing of gender categorization in sport concerns a human unit of one, I've been maneuvering, since 2019, within a human unit of two, as part of a white, queer, gender-nonconforming pairs team with my figure skating partner Anna Kellar. Situating our training and activism within the growing movement for change in the sport, this piece considers some of our experiences, the challenges, and deep pleasures as we work to advance the skil…
Older Heads on Younger Bodies
The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies
This chapter examines queer digital culture, a term that refers to the ways in which LGBTQ+ identities, practices, and theories have been mixed up in the emergence, design, and constitution of digital technology. It highlights significant shifts at the intersections of queer identity and politics and digital communication technologies from the 1980s to the early twenty-first century, including transitions from textual to audiovisual media; from s…
Barbie's Queer Accessories
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's an astronaut! She's a bride!) but nonetheless p…
Leisure and the racing of national populism
While leisure, race, and national populism have been minimally linked and theorized in the literature, we take this moment, during the global turn to national populism and conservative regimes, to center leisure and race in the politics of today. While theorizing the link to leisure and national populism, we center how the turn towards ethno-nationalist populism derives from the workings of race, alongside class, caste, and ethnicity, in various …
Figure Skating in the Formative Years
It is by now a long-established principle of gender studies, if with dynamic and developing insights, that noting the presence of women does little on its own to advance understanding. Women vary i
Hips
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…
Come Again
Book Review| October 01 2014 Come Again Orgasmology. Jagose, Annamarie. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. xxii + 251 pp. Erica Rand Erica Rand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2014) 20 (4): 535–537. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2721411 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Erica Rand; Come Again. GLQ 1 October 2014; 20 (4): 535–537. doi: https://d…
Body, Paper, Stage
Court and Sparkle
Court and Sparkle" looks at effects, ideas, and diversions in discourses around gender authenticity in sport through two 2010 controversies. One involved Kye Allums, who came out as transgender right before his third season playing NCAA Division I basketball for George Washington University, announcing plans to stay on the women's team that he had a scholarship to play for. The other involved the figure skater Johnny Weir, whose departures from m…
So Unbelievably Real
After Sex
Research Article| July 01 2007 After Sex?! Erica Rand Erica Rand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (3): 589–597. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2007-017 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Erica Rand; After Sex?!. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 2007; 106 (3): 589–597. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2007-017 Download…
Response to Paul Williams' Review of The Ellis Island Snow Globe
Queer Plymouth
Research Article| April 01 2006 QUEER PLYMOUTH Deborah Bright; Deborah Bright Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Erica Rand Erica Rand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (2): 259–277. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-12-2-259 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Deborah Bright, Erica Rand; QUEER PLYMOUTH. GLQ 1 April 2006; 12…
A Disunited Nation and a Legacy of Contradiction
This essay examines Queer Nation’s “Queers Read This” flyer, combining a textual analysis of the flyer with an exploration of its uptake in print media. The author contends that the flyer rhetorically constitutes a queer identity by establishing unity among disparate individuals through a shared relationship to violence and anger while defining them against a seemingly dissimilar “gay and lesbian” identity. This queer identity, the author argues,…
Entry denied
Breeders on a Golf Ball
The primary offerings at Ellis Island Immigration Museum do little to indicate that the millions of immigrants and, later, tourists who have passed through Ellis Island cannot all have been reproductively focused and gender normative; the site, too, seems oddly unembodied. In this paper I consider representations and absences around sex at Ellis Island, arguing for strategies of embodiment that attend to the particular bodies inhabited and to the…
The Gendered Object . Pat Kirkham A Taste for Pop
Barbie’s Queer Accessories
Lesbian Sightings
In Cosmopolitan magazine and in the work of the eighteenth-century French painter François Boucher, lesbians are visible, but nobody seems to notice. The operation of covert invisibility in such disparate cultural products suggests that the closet metaphor and the common idea that queer visibility generates queer empowerment must be retained but rethought. It also suggests that queer scholars and activists can benefit from occasionally working as…
Diderot and Girl-Group Erotics
Ask Any Girl
Review| April 01 1990 Ask Any Girl The Female Gaze: Women as Viewers of Popular Culture edited by Lorraine Gamman and Margaret Marshment, Real Comet Press/244 pp./$22.95 (hb) $12.95 (sb) Erica Rand Erica Rand Erica Rand teaches art history and women’s studies in Chicago and writes on representations of women together. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1990) 17 (9): 17. https://doi.org/10.1525/af…
Leisure and the racing of national populism
While leisure, race, and national populism have been minimally linked and theorized in the literature, we take this moment, during the global turn to national populism and conservative regimes, to center leisure and race in the politics of today. While theorizing the link to leisure and national populism, we center how the turn towards ethno-nationalist populism derives from the workings of race, alongside class, caste, and ethnicity, in various …
Court and Sparkle
Court and Sparkle" looks at effects, ideas, and diversions in discourses around gender authenticity in sport through two 2010 controversies. One involved Kye Allums, who came out as transgender right before his third season playing NCAA Division I basketball for George Washington University, announcing plans to stay on the women's team that he had a scholarship to play for. The other involved the figure skater Johnny Weir, whose departures from m…
Breeders on a Golf Ball
The primary offerings at Ellis Island Immigration Museum do little to indicate that the millions of immigrants and, later, tourists who have passed through Ellis Island cannot all have been reproductively focused and gender normative; the site, too, seems oddly unembodied. In this paper I consider representations and absences around sex at Ellis Island, arguing for strategies of embodiment that attend to the particular bodies inhabited and to the…
Queer Plymouth
Research Article| April 01 2006 QUEER PLYMOUTH Deborah Bright; Deborah Bright Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Erica Rand Erica Rand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (2): 259–277. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-12-2-259 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Deborah Bright, Erica Rand; QUEER PLYMOUTH. GLQ 1 April 2006; 12…
Lesbian Sightings
In Cosmopolitan magazine and in the work of the eighteenth-century French painter François Boucher, lesbians are visible, but nobody seems to notice. The operation of covert invisibility in such disparate cultural products suggests that the closet metaphor and the common idea that queer visibility generates queer empowerment must be retained but rethought. It also suggests that queer scholars and activists can benefit from occasionally working as…
A Disunited Nation and a Legacy of Contradiction
This essay examines Queer Nation’s “Queers Read This” flyer, combining a textual analysis of the flyer with an exploration of its uptake in print media. The author contends that the flyer rhetorically constitutes a queer identity by establishing unity among disparate individuals through a shared relationship to violence and anger while defining them against a seemingly dissimilar “gay and lesbian” identity. This queer identity, the author argues,…
Ask Any Girl
Review| April 01 1990 Ask Any Girl The Female Gaze: Women as Viewers of Popular Culture edited by Lorraine Gamman and Margaret Marshment, Real Comet Press/244 pp./$22.95 (hb) $12.95 (sb) Erica Rand Erica Rand Erica Rand teaches art history and women’s studies in Chicago and writes on representations of women together. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1990) 17 (9): 17. https://doi.org/10.1525/af…
Diderot and Girl-Group Erotics
Lesbian Sightings
In Cosmopolitan magazine and in the work of the eighteenth-century French painter François Boucher, lesbians are visible, but nobody seems to notice. The operation of covert invisibility in such disparate cultural products suggests that the closet metaphor and the common idea that queer visibility generates queer empowerment must be retained but rethought. It also suggests that queer scholars and activists can benefit from occasionally working as…
Barbie’s Queer Accessories
The Gendered Object . Pat Kirkham A Taste for Pop
Entry denied
Breeders on a Golf Ball
The primary offerings at Ellis Island Immigration Museum do little to indicate that the millions of immigrants and, later, tourists who have passed through Ellis Island cannot all have been reproductively focused and gender normative; the site, too, seems oddly unembodied. In this paper I consider representations and absences around sex at Ellis Island, arguing for strategies of embodiment that attend to the particular bodies inhabited and to the…
A Disunited Nation and a Legacy of Contradiction
This essay examines Queer Nation’s “Queers Read This” flyer, combining a textual analysis of the flyer with an exploration of its uptake in print media. The author contends that the flyer rhetorically constitutes a queer identity by establishing unity among disparate individuals through a shared relationship to violence and anger while defining them against a seemingly dissimilar “gay and lesbian” identity. This queer identity, the author argues,…
Response to Paul Williams' Review of The Ellis Island Snow Globe
Queer Plymouth
Research Article| April 01 2006 QUEER PLYMOUTH Deborah Bright; Deborah Bright Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Erica Rand Erica Rand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2006) 12 (2): 259–277. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-12-2-259 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Deborah Bright, Erica Rand; QUEER PLYMOUTH. GLQ 1 April 2006; 12…
After Sex
Research Article| July 01 2007 After Sex?! Erica Rand Erica Rand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (3): 589–597. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2007-017 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Erica Rand; After Sex?!. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 2007; 106 (3): 589–597. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2007-017 Download…
So Unbelievably Real
Body, Paper, Stage
Court and Sparkle
Court and Sparkle" looks at effects, ideas, and diversions in discourses around gender authenticity in sport through two 2010 controversies. One involved Kye Allums, who came out as transgender right before his third season playing NCAA Division I basketball for George Washington University, announcing plans to stay on the women's team that he had a scholarship to play for. The other involved the figure skater Johnny Weir, whose departures from m…
Hips
This section includes eighty-six short original essays commissioned for the inaugural issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly. Written by emerging academics, community-based writers, and senior scholars, each essay in this special issue, “Postposttranssexual: Key Concepts for a Twenty-First-Century Transgender Studies,” revolves around a particular keyword or concept. Some contributions focus on a concept central to transgender studies; other…
Come Again
Book Review| October 01 2014 Come Again Orgasmology. Jagose, Annamarie. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. xxii + 251 pp. Erica Rand Erica Rand Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2014) 20 (4): 535–537. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-2721411 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Erica Rand; Come Again. GLQ 1 October 2014; 20 (4): 535–537. doi: https://d…
Figure Skating in the Formative Years
It is by now a long-established principle of gender studies, if with dynamic and developing insights, that noting the presence of women does little on its own to advance understanding. Women vary i
Leisure and the racing of national populism
While leisure, race, and national populism have been minimally linked and theorized in the literature, we take this moment, during the global turn to national populism and conservative regimes, to center leisure and race in the politics of today. While theorizing the link to leisure and national populism, we center how the turn towards ethno-nationalist populism derives from the workings of race, alongside class, caste, and ethnicity, in various …
Older Heads on Younger Bodies
The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies
This chapter examines queer digital culture, a term that refers to the ways in which LGBTQ+ identities, practices, and theories have been mixed up in the emergence, design, and constitution of digital technology. It highlights significant shifts at the intersections of queer identity and politics and digital communication technologies from the 1980s to the early twenty-first century, including transitions from textual to audiovisual media; from s…
Barbie's Queer Accessories
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's an astronaut! She's a bride!) but nonetheless p…
Good Hair, Bad Math
While most policing of gender categorization in sport concerns a human unit of one, I've been maneuvering, since 2019, within a human unit of two, as part of a white, queer, gender-nonconforming pairs team with my figure skating partner Anna Kellar. Situating our training and activism within the growing movement for change in the sport, this piece considers some of our experiences, the challenges, and deep pleasures as we work to advance the skil…
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