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Looking Like What You Are : Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity.
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 quest...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (307 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-265) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814724064 081472406X |