Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability

Shelley Lynn Tremain

• Paperback | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability is a distinctive contribution to growing discussions about how power operates within the academic field... Lees meer

The Measure of Manliness

Karen Bourrier

• Paperback | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• The Measure of Manliness is among the first books to focus on representations of disability in Victorian literature, showing that far from being margi... Lees meer

Bodies in Commotion

Carrie Sandahl, Philip Auslander

• Paperback | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• "A testament to the synergy of two evolving fields. From the study of staged performances to examinations of the performing body in everyday life, thi... Lees meer

War on Autism

Anne McGuire

• Paperback | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• War on Autism examines autism as a historically specific and powerladen cultural phenomenon that has much to teach about the social organization of a ... Lees meer

Academic Ableism

Jay T Dolmage

• Paperback | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher educ... Lees meer

The Disabled Child

Amanda Apgar

• Paperback | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience bewilderment: they find themselves unexpectedly in ... Lees meer

Blind in Early Modern Japan

Wei Yu Wayne Tan

• Paperback | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• While the loss of sight--whether in early modern Japan or now--may be understood as a disability, blind people in the Tokugawa period (1600-1868) coul... Lees meer

Moving Beyond Prozac, Dsm, and the New Psychiatry

Bradley Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• "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 radic... Lees meer

Shakin' All Over

George McKay

• Paperback | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• Given the explosion in recent years of scholarship exploring the ways in which disability is manifested and performed in numerous cultural spaces, it'... Lees meer

Diaphanous Bodies

Jeremy Colangelo

• Hardcover | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• Diaphanous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature examines ability, as a category of embodiment and embodied experience, and in t... Lees meer

Foucault and the Government of Disability

Shelley Lynn Tremain

• Paperback | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• Foucault and the Government of Disability considers the continued relevance of Foucault to disability studies, as well as the growing significance of ... Lees meer

Disability Aesthetics

Tobin Anthony Siebers

• Paperback | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• " Disability Aesthetics ambitiously redefines both 'disability' and 'aesthetics, ' showing us that disability is central not only to modern art but al... Lees meer

Fictions of Affliction

Martha Stoddard Holmes

• Paperback | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• "Highly recommended . . . Holmes moves seamlessly from novelists like Charles Dickens to sociologists like Henry Mayhew to autobiographers like John K... Lees meer

Blindness Through the Looking Glass

Gili Hammer

• Hardcover | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• Modern Western culture is saturated with images, imprinting visual standards of concepts such as beauty and femininity onto our collective consciousne... Lees meer

The Matter of Disability

• Hardcover | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• The Matter of Disability returns disability to its proper place as an ongoing historical process of corporeal, cognitive, and sensory mutation operati... Lees meer

Academic Ableism

Jay T Dolmage

• Hardcover | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• Academic Ableism brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognize the ways that disability is composed in and by higher educ... Lees meer

Defects

• Paperback | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• "Defects" brings together essays on the emergence of the concept of monstrosity in the eighteenth century and the ways it paralleled the emergence of ... Lees meer

Autistic Disturbances

Julia Miele Rodas

• Paperback | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• While research on autism has sometimes focused on special talents or abilities, autism is typically characterized as impoverished or defective when it... Lees meer

Disability Theory

Tobin Anthony Siebers

• Paperback | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• " Disability Theory is just the book we've been waiting for. Clear, cogent, compelling analyses of the tension between the 'social model' of disabilit... Lees meer

HandiLand

Elizabeth A Wheeler

• Hardcover | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• HandiLand looks at young adult novels, fantasy series, graphic memoirs, and picture books of the last 25 years in which characters with disabilities t... Lees meer

American Lobotomy

Jenell Johnson

• Paperback | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• American Lobotomy studies a wide variety of representations of lobotomy to offer a rhetorical history of one of the most infamous procedures in the hi... Lees meer

The Metanarrative of Blindness

David Bolt

• Paperback | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• Although the theme of blindness occurs frequently in literature, literary criticism has rarely engaged the experiential knowledge of people with visua... Lees meer

The Disabled Child

Amanda Apgar

• Hardcover | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• When children are born with disabilities or become disabled in childhood, parents often experience bewilderment: they find themselves unexpectedly in ... Lees meer

A History of Disability

Henri-Jacques Stiker

• Paperback | Engels | Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
• 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... Lees meer