Passing : identity and interpretation in sexuality, race, and religion

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Label

Passing : identity and interpretation in sexuality, race, and religion

Title remainder

identity and interpretation in sexuality, race, and religion

Statement of responsibility

edited by María Carla Sánchez and Linda Schlossberg

Contributor

• Schlossberg, Linda, 1969-
• Sánchez, María Carla, 1968-

Subject

• Aufsatzsammlung
• Geschlechtsumwandlung
• Gesellschaft
• Passing
• Passing (Identity)
• Passing (Identity)
• Religion
• Sexuelle Identität
• Sozialanthropologie
• Transsexualismus

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

Member of

• Sexual cultures

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HM1068

LC item number

.P37 2001

Literary form

non fiction