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Looking Like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity

Looking Like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity

Walker, Lisa

Paperback

Series: Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life & Literature (Paperback)

GLBTQIA Studies

ISBN10: 081479372X
ISBN13: 9780814793725
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: Apr 1 2001
Pages: 301
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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 deny physical difference. In particular, she explores the implications of a predominantly visible model of sexual identity for the feminine lesbian, who is both marked and unmarked, desired and disavowed.

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