{"product_id":"9780814784747","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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLisa 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWalker'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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn 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","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129746407664,"sku":"9780814784747","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780814784747_p0.jpg?v=1763749026","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780814784747","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}