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This book is a collection of articles written by international
scholars and dealing with passing from a textual and cultural
perspective. All these explorations of a complex identity
phenomenon that defies reductive dualities result in scholarly
interrogations of societal arrangements. The texts under perusal
belong to different historical periods and various communities. The
novelty of this collection is that passing is viewed not only as a
racial or gendered transformation, but also as a religious one. The
book deals with passing either as a strategy that results in
assimilation, melting, and merging, or as resistance and challenge
against the whiteness-only-based identity politics.
For the scholarly reader it is a truism that trade, in its widest
sense (exchange, interchange, deal) is the basis of human society,
it is part of the human interaction which is the very texture of
society. The French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss demonstrated
in his seminal essay "The Elementary Structures of Kinship" that
human society relies on the exchange of women by men. But women are
not only the passive object of this trade among men. They also try
and often succeed in trading goods, ideas, and changing their
subject position by getting the upper hand in this crucial
exchange. Little attention has been given to genderizing the
connection between trade and the British Enlightenment and to its
subsequent influence on women's history and/or literary or visual
representations of women by women or men. The contributors in this
collection focus on women as physical or symbolic traded objects,
as subversive women trading in spite of cultural and social
stereotypes, and as women empowered in the cultural, political, and
social trade.
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