Linda Schlossberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 1246309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda Schlossberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda |
| FAMILY NAME | Schlossberg |
| SIGNATURE | SCHLOSSBERG L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Passing
Passing for what you are not--whether it is mulattos passing as white, Jews passing as Christian, or drag queens passing as women--can be a method of protection or self-defense. But it can also be a uniquely pleasurable experience, one that trades on the erotics of secrecy and revelation. It is precisely passing's radical playfulness, the way it asks us to reconsider our assumptions and forces our most cherished fantasies of identity to self-dest…
Novel Excerpt
The following is an excerpt from Linda Schlossberg’s dystopic novel The Incubator. It is introduced by an essay contextualizing the novel in relation to contemporary discourses and anxieties about fetal rights, women’s rights, citizenship, and the body
The Low, Vague Hum of Numbers”
J ANE EYRE, CHARLOTTE BRONTË’S QUINTESSENTIAL NOVEL of “hunger, rebellion, and rage” (34), 1 has been in recent years the subject of a number of important critical discussions about food, privation, and the social production of the female bourgeois body. These analyses, generally indebted to the theories of social practice and disciplinary individualism Foucault outlines in Discipline and Punish, tend to focus on issues of anorexia, female desire…
I Want My Mommy
The Low, Vague Hum of Numbers”
J ANE EYRE, CHARLOTTE BRONTË’S QUINTESSENTIAL NOVEL of “hunger, rebellion, and rage” (34), 1 has been in recent years the subject of a number of important critical discussions about food, privation, and the social production of the female bourgeois body. These analyses, generally indebted to the theories of social practice and disciplinary individualism Foucault outlines in Discipline and Punish, tend to focus on issues of anorexia, female desire…
I Want My Mommy
The Low, Vague Hum of Numbers”
J ANE EYRE, CHARLOTTE BRONTË’S QUINTESSENTIAL NOVEL of “hunger, rebellion, and rage” (34), 1 has been in recent years the subject of a number of important critical discussions about food, privation, and the social production of the female bourgeois body. These analyses, generally indebted to the theories of social practice and disciplinary individualism Foucault outlines in Discipline and Punish, tend to focus on issues of anorexia, female desire…
Novel Excerpt
The following is an excerpt from Linda Schlossberg’s dystopic novel The Incubator. It is introduced by an essay contextualizing the novel in relation to contemporary discourses and anxieties about fetal rights, women’s rights, citizenship, and the body
Passing
Passing for what you are not--whether it is mulattos passing as white, Jews passing as Christian, or drag queens passing as women--can be a method of protection or self-defense. But it can also be a uniquely pleasurable experience, one that trades on the erotics of secrecy and revelation. It is precisely passing's radical playfulness, the way it asks us to reconsider our assumptions and forces our most cherished fantasies of identity to self-dest…
Computer Science (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · American Literature and Culture (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Citizenship (1 work) · Demography (1 work)