Read Looking Like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity

Looking Like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity

Lisa Walker

4.9/5 (29486 ratings)

Description: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 deny physical difference. In particular, she explores the implications of a predominantly visible model of sexual identity for the feminine lesbian, who is both marked and unmarked, desired and disavowed.Walker's textual analysis cuts across a variety of genres, including modernist fiction such as The Well of Loneliness and Wide Sargasso Sea; pulp fiction of the Harlem Renaissance, the 1950s and the 1960s; post-modern literature such as Michelle Cliff's Abeng; and queer theory.In the book's final chapter, "How to Recognize a Lesbian," Walker argues that strategies of visibility are at times deconstructed, at times reinscribed within contemporary lesbian-feminist theory.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Looking Like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity. To get started finding Looking Like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: —

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: —

ISBN: 0814793711

Description: 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 deny physical difference. In particular, she explores the implications of a predominantly visible model of sexual identity for the feminine lesbian, who is both marked and unmarked, desired and disavowed.Walker's textual analysis cuts across a variety of genres, including modernist fiction such as The Well of Loneliness and Wide Sargasso Sea; pulp fiction of the Harlem Renaissance, the 1950s and the 1960s; post-modern literature such as Michelle Cliff's Abeng; and queer theory.In the book's final chapter, "How to Recognize a Lesbian," Walker argues that strategies of visibility are at times deconstructed, at times reinscribed within contemporary lesbian-feminist theory.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Looking Like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity. To get started finding Looking Like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Looking Like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity

Looking Like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity

More Books

Paris Syndrome

Paris Syndrome

Sex Lies and Bonsai

Sex Lies and Bonsai

The Girl with the Gold Bikini (An Olivia Grace Mystery, #1)

The Girl with the Gold Bikini (An Olivia Grace Mystery, #1)

The Family Dictionary (Cobb Sisters Mysteries, #1)

The Family Dictionary (Cobb Sisters Mysteries, #1)

4ad Artists: Pixies, Bauhaus, the The, the Breeders, Black Francis, Lush, Cocteau Twins, 4ad, Lisa Gerrard, Scott Walker, TV on the Radio

4ad Artists: Pixies, Bauhaus, the The, the Breeders, Black Francis, Lush, Cocteau Twins, 4ad, Lisa Gerrard, Scott Walker, TV on the Radio

The Brick Chimney (Cobb Sisters Mystery #4)

The Brick Chimney (Cobb Sisters Mystery #4)

Arkie's Pilgrimage to the Next Big Thing

Arkie's Pilgrimage to the Next Big Thing

Liar Bird

Liar Bird

The Pink Lady (Cobb Sisters Mystery, #3)

The Pink Lady (Cobb Sisters Mystery, #3)