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Narrative Prosthesis
Narrative Prosthesis: Disability and the Dependencies of Discourse develops a narrative theory of the pervasive use of disability as a device of characterization in literature and …
Disability Studies
Images of disability pervade language and literature, yet disability is, as sex was in the Victorian world, the ubiquitous unspoken topic in today's culture. The twenty-five essays …
The Body and Physical Difference
For years the subject of human disability has engaged those in the biological, social and cognitive sciences, while at the same time, it has been curiously neglected within the …
Cultural Locations of Disability
In "Cultural Locations of Disability", Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell trace how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. The eugenics era pioneered …
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 …
The Gateway Resort Murders
A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age
If eugenics -- the science of eliminating kinds of undesirable human beings from the species record -- came to overdetermine the late 19th century in relation to disability, the …
The Deceived Wife
Based on a true story of a young woman who grew up in Pakistan, all the time dreaming of the day she would be married to a handsome doctor or lawyer. Her arranged marriage to an …