Passing : : Identity and Interpretation in Sexuality, Race, and Religion / / ed. by Maria C. Sanchez, Linda Schlossberg.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Bronski, Michael,; Brown, Karen McCarthy,; Epps, Brad,; Halberstam, Judith,; Hitchcock, Peter,; Itzkovitz, Daniel,; O’Malley, Patrick R.,; Peskowitz, Miriam,; Schlossberg, Linda,; Sánchez, María Carla,; Ullman, Sharon,
• HerausgeberIn: Sanchez, Maria C.,; Schlossberg, Linda,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Sexual Cultures ; 29
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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. Contributors: Michael Bronski, Karen McCarthy Brown, Bradley Epps, Judith Halberstam, Peter Hitchcock, Daniel Itzkovitz, Patrick O'Malley, Miriam Peskowitz, María C. Sánchez Linda Schlossberg, and Sharon Ullman.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- 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 Newark -- 9 “The Church’s Closet” Confessionals, Victorian Catholicism, and the Crisis of Identification -- 10 Moses’ Wilderness Tabernacle -- Contributors