Bibliographie complète
Looking like what you are sexual style, race, and lesbian identity
Type de ressource
Auteur/contributeur
- Walker, Lisa (Auteur)
Titre
Looking like what you are sexual style, race, and lesbian identity
Résumé
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 as Michelle Cliff's Abeng, and queer theory.
Collection
The cutting edge: Lesbian life and literature
Maison d’édition
New York University Press
Date
2001
Nb de pages
279
Langue
Anglais
ISBN
978-0-8147-9372-5 978-0-8147-9371-8
Référence
Walker, Lisa. (2001). Looking like what you are sexual style, race, and lesbian identity. New York University Press. https://uqam-bib.on.worldcat.org/oclc/491126157
Discipline
Thématiques
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