Looking Like What You Are

Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity

Autor: Lisa Walker

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Wydawca: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Looks can be deceiving, and in a society where one's status and access to opportunity are largely at...

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Autor

Lisa Walker

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2001

strony

301

EAN

9780814793718

ISBN

0814793711

Enbook ID

04932763

Wydawca

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS

Waga

481

Wymiary

152 x 229 x 15

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Looks can be deceiving, and in a society where one's status and access to opportunity are largely attendant on physical appearance, the issue of how difference is constructed and interpreted, embraced or effaced, is of tremendous import. Lisa Walker examines this issue with a focus on the questions of what it means to look like a lesbian, and what it means to be a lesbian but not to look like one. She analyzes the historical production of the lesbian body as marked, and studies how lesbians have used the frequent analogy between racial difference and sexual orientation to craft, emphasize, or deny physical difference. In particular, she explores the implications of a predominantly visible model of sexual identity for the feminine lesbian, who is both marked and unmarked, desired and disavowed. Walker's textual analysis cuts across a variety of genres, including modernist fiction such as The Well of Loneliness and Wide Sargasso Sea, pulp fiction of the Harlem Renaissance, the 1950s and the 1960s, post-modern literature as Michelle Cliff's Abeng, and queer theory. In the book's final chapter, "How to Recognize a Lesbian," Walker argues that strategies of visibility are at times deconstructed, at times reinscribed within contemporary lesbian-feminist theory.

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