Fantasies of Identification: Disability, Gender, Race

by Ellen Samuels

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479859494
• ISBN13: 9781479859498
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"