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Signifying Bodies
Disability in Contemporary Life Writing
Häftad, 2009
443 kr
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"Thomas Couser's Signifying Bodies comes at a crucial moment when debates about physician assisted suicide, genetic engineering, and neo-natal screening are raising the question of what constitutes a 'life worth living' for persons with disabilities. Couser's work engages these debates by exploring …
Pain in Relation
On Causality, Chronicity, and (Crip) Evidence
Häftad, 2026
459 kr
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Pain in Relation: On Causality, Chronicity, and (Crip) Evidence argues that the dominant stories circulating within contemporary US culture are marked by seemingly contradictory certainties: pain is at once subjective yet universal; that pain makes life unlivable and can be overcome with …
Monstrous Kinds
Body, Space, and Narrative in Renaissance Representations of Disability
Inbunden, 2019
1301 kr
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Body, space, and narrative in Renaissance representations of disability. Monstrous Kinds is the first book to explore textual representations of disability in the global Renaissance. Elizabeth B. Bearden contends that monstrosity, as a precursor to modern concepts of disability, has much to teach …
Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry
The Birth of Postpsychiatry
Häftad, 2006
397 kr
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"Interesting and fresh-represents an important and vigorous challenge to a discipline that at the moment is stuck in its own devices and needs a radical critique to begin to move ahead."--Paul McHugh, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine"Remarkable in its breadth-an interesting and valuable …
Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture
Av Carol Poore
Häftad, 2009
365 kr
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"Comprehensively researched, abundantly illustrated and written in accessible and engaging prose . . . With great skill, Poore weaves diverse types of evidence, including historical sources, art, literature, journalism, film, philosophy, and personal narratives into a tapestry which illuminates the …
Disabled Veterans in History
Häftad, 2012
475 kr
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Disabled Veterans in History explores the long-neglected history of those who have sustained lasting injuries or chronic illnesses while serving in uniform. The contributors to this volume cover an impressive range of countries in Europe and North America as well as a wide sweep of chronology from …
Staff of Oedipus
Transforming Disability in Ancient Greece
Häftad, 2013
397 kr
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Ancient Greek images of disability permeate the Western consciousness: Homer, Teiresias, and Oedipus immediately come to mind. But The Staff of Oedipus looks at disability in the ancient world through the lens of disability studies, and reveals that our interpretations of disability in the ancient …
Foucault and the Government of Disability
Häftad, 2015
446 kr
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Foucault and the Government of Disability considers the continued relevance of Foucault to disability studies, as well as the growing significance of disability studies to understandings of Foucault. A decade ago, this international collection provocatively responded to Foucault’s call to question …
Metanarrative of Blindness
A Re-reading of Twentieth-Century Anglophone Writing
Av David Bolt
Häftad, 2016
373 kr
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Although the theme of blindness occurs frequently in literature, literary criticism has rarely engaged the experiential knowledge of people with visual impairments. The Metanarrative of Blindness counters this trend by bringing to readings of twentieth-century works in English a perspective …
American Lobotomy
A Rhetorical History
Häftad, 2014
350 kr
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American Lobotomy studies a wide variety of representations of lobotomy to offer a rhetorical history of one of the most infamous procedures in the history of medicine. The development of lobotomy in 1935 was heralded as a “miracle cure” that would empty the nation’s perennially blighted asylums. …
History of Disability
Häftad, 2019
397 kr
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The first book to attempt to provide a framework for analyzing disability through the ages, Henri-Jacques Stiker's now classic A History of Disability traces the history of western cultural responses to disability, from ancient times to the present. The sweep of the volume is broad; from a …
Embodied Archive
Disability in Post-Revolutionary Mexican Cultural Production
Av Susan Antebi
Häftad, 2021
385 kr
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Embodied Archive focuses on perceptions of disability and racial difference in Mexico’s early post-revolutionary period, from the 1920s to the 1940s. In this period, Mexican state-sponsored institutions charged with the education and health of the population sought to strengthen and improve the …
Concerto for the Left Hand
Disability and the Defamiliar Body
Häftad, 2008
443 kr
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"Professor Davidson---an accomplished literary critic---offers a focused and balanced analysis of poetry, film, and the arts honed with his excellent knowledge of the latest advances in disability studies. He is brilliant at reading texts in a sophisticated and aesthetically pleasurable way, making …
Disability Theory
Häftad, 2008
340 kr
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"Disability Theory is just the book we've been waiting for. Clear, cogent, compelling analyses of the tension between the 'social model' of disability and the material details of impairment; of identity politics and unstable identities; of capability rights and human interdependence; of disability …
Songs of Blind Folk
African American Musicians and the Cultures of Blindness
Av Terry Rowden
Häftad, 2009
333 kr
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"Rowden has wedded ethnomusicology and disability studies to offer a fresh approach to the study of African American popular music. The Songs of Blind Folk undermines many of the defining mythologies and tropes of blind musicians, including the perception that they are successful because they …
Disability Aesthetics
Häftad, 2010
340 kr
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"Disability Aesthetics ambitiously redefines both 'disability' and 'aesthetics,' showing us that disability is central not only to modern art but also to the way we apprehend (and interact with) bodies and buildings. Along the way, Tobin Siebers revisits the beautiful and the sublime, 'degenerate' …
Mad at School
Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life
Häftad, 2011
373 kr
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"A very important study that will appeal to a disability studies audience as well as scholars in social movements, social justice, critical pedagogy, literacy education, professional development for disability and learning specialists in access centers and student counseling centers, as well as the …
Shakin' All Over
Popular Music and Disability
Av George McKay
Häftad, 2013
506 kr
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Given the explosion in recent years of scholarship exploring the ways in which disability is manifested and performed in numerous cultural spaces, it’s surprising that until now there has never been a single monograph study covering the important intersection of popular music and disability. George …
Measure of Manliness
Disability and Masculinity in the Mid-Victorian Novel
Häftad, 2015
512 kr
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The Measure of Manliness is among the first books to focus on representations of disability in Victorian literature, showing that far from being marginalized or pathologized, disability was central to the narrative form of the mid-century novel. Mid-Victorian novels evidenced a proliferation of …
Biopolitics of Disability
Neoliberalism, Ablenationalism, and Peripheral Embodiment
Häftad, 2015
478 kr
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In the neoliberal era, when human worth is measured by its relative utility within global consumer culture, selected disabled people have been able to gain entrance into late capitalist culture. The Biopolitics of Disability terms this phenomenon “ablenationalism” and asserts that “inclusion” …
War on Autism
On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence
Av Anne McGuire
Häftad, 2016
506 kr
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War on Autism examines autism as a historically specific and powerladen cultural phenomenon that has much to teach about the social organization of a neoliberal western modernity. Bringing together a variety of interpretive theoretical perspectives including critical disability studies, queer and …
Bodies of Modernism
Physical Disability in Transatlantic Modernist Literature
Av Maren Tova Linett, Maren Linett
Häftad, 2016
512 kr
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Bodies of Modernism brings a new and exciting analytical lens to modernist literature, that of critical disability studies. The book offers new readings of canonical and noncanonical writers from both sides of the Atlantic including Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, …
Negotiating Disability
Disclosure and Higher Education
Av Stephanie L. Kerschbaum, Laura T. Eisenman m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
652 kr
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Disability is not always central to claims about diversity and inclusion in higher education, but should be. This collection reveals the pervasiveness of disability issues and considerations within many higher education populations and settings, from classrooms to physical environments to policy …
Academic Ableism
Disability and Higher Education
Häftad, 2017
373 kr
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Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and center. For too long, argues Jay …
Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability
Häftad, 2017
385 kr
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Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability is a distinctive contribution to growing discussions about how power operates within the academic field of philosophy. By combining the work of Michel Foucault, the insights of philosophy of disability and feminist philosophy, and data derived from …
Autistic Disturbances
Theorizing Autism Poetics from the DSM to Robinson Crusoe
Häftad, 2018
443 kr
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While research on autism has sometimes focused on special talents or abilities, autism is typically characterized as impoverished or defective when it comes to language. Autistic Disturbances reveals the ways interpreters have failed to register the real creative valence of autistic language and …
Matter of Disability
Materiality, Biopolitics, Crip Affect
Av David T. Mitchell, Susan Antebi m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
512 kr
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The Matter of Disability returns disability to its proper place as an ongoing historical process of corporeal, cognitive, and sensory mutation operating in a world of dynamic, even cataclysmic, change. The book’s contributors offer new theorizations of human and nonhuman embodiments and their …
Vitality Politics
Health, Debility, and the Limits of Black Emancipation
Häftad, 2019
446 kr
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Vitality Politics focuses on a slow racial violence against African Americans through everyday, accumulative, contagious, and toxic attritions on health. The book engages with recent critical disability studies scholarship to recognize that debility, or the targeted maiming and distressing of Black …
HandiLand
The Crippest Place on Earth
Häftad, 2019
512 kr
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HandiLand looks at young adult novels, fantasy series, graphic memoirs, and picture books of the last 25 years in which characters with disabilities take center stage for the first time. These books take what others regard as weaknesses—for instance, Harry Potter’s headaches or Hazel Lancaster’s …
Blindness Through the Looking Glass
The Performance of Blindness, Gender, and the Sensory Body
Av Gili Hammer
Häftad, 2019
415 kr
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Modern Western culture is saturated with images, imprinting visual standards of concepts such as beauty and femininity onto our collective consciousness. Blindness Through the Looking Glass examines how gender and femininity are performed and experienced in everyday life by women who do not rely on …
