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 prec...

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