Product Description:
orporealities: Discourses of Disability promotes a broad range of scholarly work analyzing the cultural and representational meanings of disability. Definitions of disability underpin fundamental concepts such as normalcy, health, bodily integrity, individuality, citizenship, and morality?all terms that define the very essence of what it means to be human. Yet, disabilities have been traditionally treated as conditions in need of medical intervention and correction. Rarely has disability been approached as a constructed category forwarded by social institutions seeking to legislate the slippery line that exists between normative biologies and deviant bodies. In addition to identifying the social phantasms that have been projected upon disabled subjects in history, the series aims to theorize the shifting coordinates of disabled identities. Published titles: Linda Hamilton Krieger (ed.), "Backlash Against the ADA"; Carrie Sandahl & Phillip Auslander (eds.), "Bodies in Commotion"; Michael Davidson, "Concerto for the Left Hand"; Felicity Nussbaum & Helen Deutsch (eds.), "'Defects': Engendering the Modern Body"; Carol Poore, "Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture"; Tobin Siebers, "Disability Theory"; David Gerber (ed.), "Disabled Veterans in History"; Martha Stoddard Holmes, "Fictions of Affliction"; Shelley Tremain (ed.), "Foucault and the Government of Disability"; Henri-Jacques Stiker, "A History of Disability"; Bradley Lewis, "Moving Beyond Prozac, the DSM, and the New Psychiatry"; David Mitchell & Sharon Snyder, "Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse"; Susan Crutchfield & Marcy Epstein (eds.), "Points of Contact"; Allen Thiher, "Revels in Madness"; Martha L. Rose, "The Staff of Oedipus"
