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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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2001.
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| Series: | Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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 of Female Development; 5. How to Recognize a Lesbian: The Cultural Politicsof Looking Like What You Are; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author.