Fantasies of identification

Fantasies of identification: disability, gender, race

by Samuels, Ellen

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"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 verifiable in a literally marked body. Combining literary analysis, legal history, and visual culture, Ellen Samuels traces the evolution of the "fantasy of identification"--The powerful belief that embodied …

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  • Full title :Fantasies of identification : disability, gender, race / Ellen Samuels.

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"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 verifiable in a literally marked body. Combining literary analysis, legal history, and visual culture, Ellen Samuels traces the evolution of the "fantasy of identification"--The powerful belief that embodied social identities are fixed, verifiable, and visible through modern science. From birthmarks and fingerprints to blood quantum and DNA, she examines how this fantasy has circulated between cultural representations, law, science, and policy to become one of the most powerfully institutionalized ideologies of modern society."--Back cover.

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  • Publication Date:cop. 2014.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 vol. (x-263 p.) ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781479812981, 1479812986, 9781479859498, 1479859494
  • oclc:ocn945365187
  • Dewey Decimal:305.9/08

Subjects

DISABILITIES Ethnicité -- 19e siècle. -- États-Unis Group identity Handicap Handicapés -- 19e siècle. -- États-Unis Identification -- Aspect social Identification -- Social aspects Identité (Psychologie) Identité (psychologie) -- 19e siècle Identité collective Identité collective -- 19e siècle. -- É… Identité sexuelle -- 19e siècle. -- Éta… Identity (Psychology) Social Identification

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Samuels, Ellen

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