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Fantasies of identification : disability, gender, race / Ellen Samuels
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Cultural frontPublisher: New York : New York University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 263 pages)ISBN:- 9781479855049
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- HM753
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Summary: "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."--Provided by publisherPPN: PPN: 1916212727Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
Introduction: The crisis of identification -- part 1. Fantasies of Fakery. Ellen Craft's masquerade ; Confidence in the nineteenth century ; The disability con onscreen -- part 2. Fantasies of Marking. The trials of Salomé Müller ; Of fiction and fingerprints -- part 3. Fantasies of Measurement. Proving disability ; Revising blood quantum ; Realms of biocertification ; DNA and the readable self -- Conclusion: Future identifications.
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