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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
[2014]
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Series: | Cultural front (Series)
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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 Salomé 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.