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Fantasies of Identification : Disability, Gender, Race /

"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 veri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Samuels, Ellen Jean (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The crisis of identification
  • part 1. Fantasies of Fakery. Ellen Craft's masquerade ; Confidence in the nineteenth century ; The disability con onscreen
  • part 2. Fantasies of Marking. The trials of Salome Müller ; Of fiction and fingerprints
  • part 3. Fantasies of Measurement. Proving disability ; Revising blood quantum ; Realms of biocertification ; DNA and the readable self
  • Conclusion: Future identifications.