Hakutulokset: Sarja Corporealities: Discourses of Disability
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Foucault and the Government of Disability
This revised and expanded edition of Foucault and the Government of Disability considers the continued relevance of Foucault to disability studies, as well as the growing …
Revels in Madness
Revels in Madness provides a history of Western culture''s shifting understandings of insanity as evidenced in its literature and as influenced by medical knowledge at any given …
The Songs of Blind Folk
This book tells how America has constructed the figure of the visually impaired black performer over the last 150 years. It features Ray Charles, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Stevie …
Vitality Politics
Vitality Politics focuses on a slow racial violence against African Americans through everyday, accumulative, contagious, and toxic attritions on health. The book engages with …
Shakin' All Over
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 …
Down Syndrome Culture
People with Down syndrome possess a culture. They are producers of culture. And in the 21st century, this culture is increasingly visible as a global phenomenon. Down Syndrome …
Beholding Disability in Renaissance England
Human variation has always existed, though it has been conceived of and responded to variably. Beholding Disability in Renaissance England interprets sixteenth- and …
Signifying Bodies
This book sheds new light on the memoir boom by asking: Is the genre basically about disability? Memoirs have enjoyed great popularity in recent years, experiencing significant …
The Matter of Disability
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 …
War on Autism
Autism is widely understood in contemporary times as nothing more than a biomedical disorder in need of treatment and/or cure. War on Autism disrupts this singularity by examining …
Disability in Twentieth-century German Culture
This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of disability in Germany, from the Weimar Republic to the fall of the Berlin Wall. ""Disability in Twentieth-Century German Culture"" …
The Biopolitics of Disability
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 …