Fantasies of Identification : Disability, Gender, Race

• Tác giả: Ellen Jean Samuels
• ISBN-13: 978-1479855049
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : New York University Press, [2014]
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (288 pages).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 462137
• Chủ đề: 1. Disabilities; 2. Group identity; 3. Identification--Social aspects; 4. Identity (Psychology); 5. Handicap; 6. Identification--Aspect social; 7. Identite (Psychologie); 8. Identite collective; 10. group identity; 13. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology; 14. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations; 15. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies

Tóm tắt

 "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 publisher.