{"product_id":"looking-like-what-you-are-lisa-walker-9780814793725","title":"Looking Like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003eLooks can be deceiving, and in a society where one's status and access to opportunity are largely attendant on physical appearance, the issue of how difference is constructed and interpreted, embraced or effaced, is of tremendous import.\u003cbr\u003e Lisa Walker examines this issue with a focus on the questions of what it means to look like a lesbian, and what it means to be a lesbian but not to look like one. She analyzes the historical production of the lesbian body as marked, and studies how lesbians have used the frequent analogy between racial difference and sexual orientation to craft, emphasize, or deny physical difference. In particular, she explores the implications of a predominantly visible model of sexual identity for the feminine lesbian, who is both marked and unmarked, desired and disavowed.\u003cbr\u003e Walker's textual analysis cuts across a variety of genres, including modernist fiction such as \u003ci\u003eThe Well of Loneliness \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWide Sargasso Sea, \u003c\/i\u003epulp fiction of the Harlem Renaissance, the 1950s and the 1960s, post-modern literature as Michelle Cliff's \u003ci\u003eAbeng, \u003c\/i\u003eand queer theory.\u003cbr\u003e In the book's final chapter, \"How to Recognize a Lesbian,\" Walker argues that strategies of visibility are at times deconstructed, at times reinscribed within contemporary lesbian-feminist theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lisa Walker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 081479372X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814793725\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 301\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2001 pg. 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2002 pg. 885","brand":"Lisa Walker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086927180031,"sku":"9780814793725","price":39.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_28dbb35b-9967-485f-9baf-89d301cc890b.jpg?v=1769097329","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/looking-like-what-you-are-lisa-walker-9780814793725","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}