Description: Further DetailsTitle: Fantasies of IdentificationCondition: NewSubtitle: Disability, Gender, RaceISBN-10: 1479812986EAN: 9781479812981ISBN: 9781479812981Publisher: New York University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/25/2014Description: Explores the roots of modern understandings of bodily identityIn 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.Yet, as Samuels demonstrates, in every case, the fantasy distorts its claimed scientific basis, substituting subjective language for claimed objective fact. From its early emergence in discourses about disability fakery and fugitive slaves in the nineteenth century to its most recent manifestation in the question of sex testing at the 2012 Olympic Games, Fantasies of Identification explores the roots of modern understandings of bodily identity.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 153mmAuthor: Ellen SamuelsGenre: Society & CultureBook Series: Cultural FrontTopic: Gender Sex & RelationshipsRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Fantasies of Identification
Title: Fantasies of Identification
Subtitle: Disability, Gender, Race
ISBN-10: 1479812986
EAN: 9781479812981
ISBN: 9781479812981
Release Date: 04/25/2014
Release Year: 2014
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships
Number of Pages: 273 Pages
Publication Name: Fantasies of Identification : Disability, Gender, Race
Language: English
Publisher: New York University Press
Subject: Gender Studies, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social Psychology
Publication Year: 2014
Item Height: 0.6 in
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Ellen Samuels
Subject Area: Law, Social Science, Psychology
Item Length: 9 in
Series: Cultural Front Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
