Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race
In themid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult todistinguish between bodies understood as black, white, or Indian; able-bodiedor disabled; and male or female, intense efforts emerged to define theseidentities as biologically distinct and scientifically verifiable in aliterally marked body. Combining literary analysis, legal history, and visualculture, Ellen Samuels traces the evolution of the fantasy ofidentification”—the powerful belief that embodied social identities are fixed,verifiable, and visible through modern science. From birthmarks andfingerprints to blood quantum and DNA, she examines how this fanta…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4798-5949-8
- EAN: 9781479859498
- Produktnummer: 15643763
- Verlag: New York Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 263 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.1 cm x D2.0 cm 388 g
- Gewicht: 388
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Ellen Samuels is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies and English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.
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