Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. I Want to Be You 1
5. Totalizing Identifications
6. The Politics of Envy in Academic Feminist Communities and in Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride 20
7. I Want You To Be Me 42
8. Identification with the Trauma of Others 66
9. Structures of Identification in the Visual Field
10. Race and Idealization in Toni Morrison’s Tar Baby and in White Feminist Cross-Race Fantasies 86
11. Luring the Gaze 119
12. Disidentification and Border Negotiations of Gender in Sandra Cisneros’s Woman Hollering Creek 145
13. Heteropathic Identifications
14. Toward Cross-Race Dialogue 170
15. The Challenges of Infant Research and Neurobiology to Traditional Models of Primary Identification 192
16. Notes 209
17. Works Cited 251