Looking like what you are : sexual style, race, and lesbian identity / Lisa Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Lisa, 1965-

Series:

Cutting edge (New York, N.Y.)

The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lesbians--Identity.

Lesbians.

Lesbianism.

Homosexuality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction: In/visible Differences; 1. Martyred Butches and Impossible Femmes:Radclyffe Hall and the Modern Lesbian; 2. Debutante in Harlem: Blair Niles's Strange Brother; 3. Lesbian Pulp in Black and White; 4. Strategies of Identification in Three Narratives ofFemale Development; 5. How to Recognize a Lesbian: The Cultural Politicsof Looking Like What You Are; Epilogue; Notes; Works Cited; Index; About the Author

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-265) and index.

ISBN:

9780814784747

0814784747

9780814724064

081472406X

OCLC:

779828446