Fantasies of Identification Mariano E. Bertucci will find the book invaluable

will find the book invaluable

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Fantasies of Identification Mariano E. Bertucci will find the book invaluableIn the mid nineteenth century United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understood as black, white, or Indian; able bodied or disabled; and male or female, intense efforts emerged to define these identities as biologically distinct and scientifically verifiable in a literally marked body. Combining literary analysis, legal history, and visual culture, Ellen Samuels traces the evolution of the "fantasy of