Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race: 10 (Cultural Front) By S

Fantasies of Identification\nby Ellen Samuels\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Ellen Samuels\nTitle: Fantasies of Identification\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Gender studies, gender groups\nPublisher: New York University Press\nPublication year: 2014\nISBN-13: 9781479859498\nISBN-10: 1479859494\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nExplores the roots of modern understandings of bodily identity\nIn 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, and visual cul.