Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race

(Part of the Cultural Front Series)

by Ellen Samuels

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Explores the roots of modern understandings of bodily identity

In the mid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understood as black, white, or Indian; able-bodied or disabled; and male or female, intense efforts emerged to define these identities as biologically distinct and scientifically verifiable in a literally marked body. Combining literary analysis, legal history,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1479859494

ISBN13:9781479859498

Release Date:April 2014

Publisher:New York University Press

Length:273 Pages

Weight:0.92 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"

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