Looking Like What You Are: Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity

by Lisa Walker and Lisa Walker

Book Overview

Looks 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.
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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081479372X
• ISBN13: 9780814793725
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"