Looking like what you are [[electronic resource] ] : sexual style, race, and lesbian identity / / Lisa Walker

• Autore: Walker Lisa <1965->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (307 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.48/9664
• Soggetto topico: Lesbians - Identity; Lesbianism; Homosexuality
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-265) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Introduction: In/visible Differences; 1. Martyred Butches and Impossible Femmes:Radclyffe Hall and the Modern Lesbian; 2. Debutante in Harlem: Blair Niles's Strange Brother; 3. Lesbian Pulp in Black and White; 4. Strategies of Identification in Three Narratives ofFemale Development; 5. How to Recognize a Lesbian: The Cultural Politicsof Looking Like What You Are; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Looking like what you are
• ISBN: 0-8147-8474-7; 0-8147-2406-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450371703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cutting edge (New York, N.Y.)