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Passing : identity and interpretation in sexuality, race, and religion, edited by María Carla Sánchez and Linda Schlossberg

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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 structured around visibility, whether in the service of science (Victorian physiognomy), psychoanalysis (Lacan's mirror stage), or philosophy (the Panopticon). As such, it is charged with anxieties regarding classification and social demarcation. Passing wreaks havoc with accepted systems of social recognition and cultural intelligibility, blurring the carefully-marked lines of race, gender, and class. Bringing together theories of passing across a host of disciplines--from critical race theory and lesbian and gay studies, to literary theory and religious studies--Passing complicates our current understanding of the visual and categories of identity"--Publisher description
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
viii, 274 pages
Note
Includes index
Contents
  • The "self-made man" : male impersonation and the new woman
  • Sharon Ullman
  • Mimesis in the face of fear : femme queens, butch queens, and gender play in the houses of greater Newark
  • Karen McCarthy Brown
  • "The
  • Church's closet" : confessionals, Victorian Catholicism, and the crisis of identification
  • Patrick R. O'Malley
  • Moses' wilderness tabernacle
  • Miriam Peskowitz
  • Telling tales : Brandon Teena, Billy Tipton, and transgender biography
  • Judith Halberstam
  • Passing like me : Jewish chameleonism and the politics of race
  • Daniel Itzkovitz
  • Whiteness invisible : early Mexican American writing and the color of literary history
  • Mariá Carla Sánchez
  • Passing lines : immigration and the performance of American identity / Brad Epps -- From Victorian parlor to Physique pictorial : the male nude and homosexual identity / Michael Bronski -- Slumming
  • Peter Hitchcock
Isbn
9780814781234
Instance
Label
Passing : identity and interpretation in sexuality, race, and religion
Title
Passing
Title remainder
identity and interpretation in sexuality, race, and religion
Statement of responsibility
edited by María Carla Sánchez and Linda Schlossberg
Contributor
Subject
Language
eng
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 structured around visibility, whether in the service of science (Victorian physiognomy), psychoanalysis (Lacan's mirror stage), or philosophy (the Panopticon). As such, it is charged with anxieties regarding classification and social demarcation. Passing wreaks havoc with accepted systems of social recognition and cultural intelligibility, blurring the carefully-marked lines of race, gender, and class. Bringing together theories of passing across a host of disciplines--from critical race theory and lesbian and gay studies, to literary theory and religious studies--Passing complicates our current understanding of the visual and categories of identity"--Publisher description
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DLC
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
HM1068
LC item number
.P37 2001
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
  • 1968-
  • 1969-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Sánchez, María Carla
  • Schlossberg, Linda
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Passing (Identity)
  • Passing (Identity)
  • Geschlechtsumwandlung
  • Sozialanthropologie
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Passing
  • Religion
  • Transsexualismus
  • Sexuelle Identität
  • Gesellschaft
Label
Passing : identity and interpretation in sexuality, race, and religion, edited by María Carla Sánchez and Linda Schlossberg
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Includes index
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The "self-made man" : male impersonation and the new woman
  • Sharon Ullman
  • Mimesis in the face of fear : femme queens, butch queens, and gender play in the houses of greater Newark
  • Karen McCarthy Brown
  • "The
  • Church's closet" : confessionals, Victorian Catholicism, and the crisis of identification
  • Patrick R. O'Malley
  • Moses' wilderness tabernacle
  • Miriam Peskowitz
  • Telling tales : Brandon Teena, Billy Tipton, and transgender biography
  • Judith Halberstam
  • Passing like me : Jewish chameleonism and the politics of race
  • Daniel Itzkovitz
  • Whiteness invisible : early Mexican American writing and the color of literary history
  • Mariá Carla Sánchez
  • Passing lines : immigration and the performance of American identity / Brad Epps -- From Victorian parlor to Physique pictorial : the male nude and homosexual identity / Michael Bronski -- Slumming
  • Peter Hitchcock
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
viii, 274 pages
Isbn
9780814781234
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2001002805
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)46991688
  • (OCoLC)ocm46991688
Label
Passing : identity and interpretation in sexuality, race, and religion, edited by María Carla Sánchez and Linda Schlossberg
Publication
Note
Includes index
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The "self-made man" : male impersonation and the new woman
  • Sharon Ullman
  • Mimesis in the face of fear : femme queens, butch queens, and gender play in the houses of greater Newark
  • Karen McCarthy Brown
  • "The
  • Church's closet" : confessionals, Victorian Catholicism, and the crisis of identification
  • Patrick R. O'Malley
  • Moses' wilderness tabernacle
  • Miriam Peskowitz
  • Telling tales : Brandon Teena, Billy Tipton, and transgender biography
  • Judith Halberstam
  • Passing like me : Jewish chameleonism and the politics of race
  • Daniel Itzkovitz
  • Whiteness invisible : early Mexican American writing and the color of literary history
  • Mariá Carla Sánchez
  • Passing lines : immigration and the performance of American identity / Brad Epps -- From Victorian parlor to Physique pictorial : the male nude and homosexual identity / Michael Bronski -- Slumming
  • Peter Hitchcock
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
viii, 274 pages
Isbn
9780814781234
Isbn Type
(pbk. : alk. paper)
Lccn
2001002805
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)46991688
  • (OCoLC)ocm46991688

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