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Ellen Samuels - Fantasies of Identification - 9781479812981 - V9781479812981
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Fantasies of Identification

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Description for Fantasies of Identification Hardback. Combining literary analysis, legal history, and visual culture, this book traces the evolution of the "fantasy of identification" - the powerful belief that embodied social identities are fixed, verifiable, and visible through modern science. Series: Cultural Front. Num Pages: 273 pages, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 540.

Explores the roots of modern understandings of bodily identity
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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publication date
2014
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Front
Format
Hardback
Number of Pages
273
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479812981
SKU
V9781479812981
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About Ellen Samuels
Ellen Samuels is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Reviews for Fantasies of Identification
In this smart and readable book, Samuels traces her subject from the nineteenth century into the early twenty-first, where it persists in debates over blood quantum, DNA testing, and disabled parking permits.
American Literature
[Samuels] shows the impossibility of talking about, say, race or gender, without showing their formation through a body under inspection. She is less engaged ... Read more

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