Passing : Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion / edited by María Carla Sánchez and Linda Schlossberg.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schlossberg, Linda, 1969-

Sánchez, María Carla, 1968-

Series:

Sexual Cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Passing (Identity).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Passing for what you are not--whether it is mulattos passing as white, Jews passing as Christian, or drag queens passing as women--can be a method of protection or self-defense. But it can also be a uniquely pleasurable experience, one that trades on the erotics of secrecy and revelation. It is precisely passing's radical playfulness, the way it asks us to reconsider our assumptions and forces our most cherished fantasies of identity to self-destruct, that is centrally addressed in Passing: Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion . Identity in Western culture is largely st

Contents:

Contents; Introduction: Rites of Passing; 1. Telling Tales: Brandon Teena, Billy Tipton, and Transgender Biography; 2. Passing Like Me: Jewish Chameleonism and the Politics of Race; 3. Whiteness Invisible: Early Mexican American Writing and the Color of Literary History; 4. Passing Lines: Immigration and the Performance of American Identity; 5. From Victorian Parlor to Physique Pictorial: The Male Nude and Homosexual Identity; 6. Slumming; 7. The ""Self-Made Man"": Male Impersonation and the New Woman

8. Mimesis in the Face of Fear: Femme Queens, Butch Queens, and Gender Play in the Houses of Greater Newark9. ""The Church's Closet"": Confessionals, Victorian Catholicism, and the Crisis of Identification; 10. Moses' Wilderness Tabernacle; Contributors

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814708613

0814708617

9780814786819

0814786812

OCLC:

779828373