Fantasies of Identification : : Disability, Gender, Race / / Ellen Samuels.
In themid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult todistinguish between bodies understood as black, white, or Indian; able-bodiedor disabled; and male or female, intense efforts emerged to define theseidentities as biologically distinct and scientifically verifiable in...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press,, [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cultural front (Series)
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Crisis of Identification
- 1. Ellen Craft’s Masquerade
- 2. Confidence in the Nineteenth Century
- 3. The Disability Con Onscreen
- 4. The Trials of Salomé Müller
- 5. Of Fiction and Fingerprints
- 6. Proving Disability
- 7. Revising Blood Quantum
- 8. Realms of Biocertification
- 9. DNA and the Readable Self
- Conclusion: Future Identifications
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author