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

Summary

This work examines the issue of difference in appearance by focusing 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. It analyzes the production and implications of lesbian identity, in particular for feminine lesbians.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Walker
• Assisted by: Peter Meiksins (Editor), Ellen Wood (Editor)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2001
• EAN: 9780814793718
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-9371-8
• No. of pages: 301
• Weight: 481 g
• Series: Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life & L; Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life & L
• Subjects: Guides > Health > Beauty/cosmetics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories