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Rehabilitative Postsocialism
Katerina Kolárová’s Rehabilitative Postsocialism offers a timely interdisciplinary and intersectional analysis of how disability, race, class, and gender operate as ideological …
Blindness Through the Looking Glass
Modern Western culture is saturated with images, imprinting visual standards of concepts such as beauty and femininity onto our collective consciousness. Blindness Through the …
Disability Aesthetics
"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 …
The Measure of Manliness
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, …
The Metanarrative of Blindness
Although the theme of blindness occurs frequently in literature, literary criticism rarely engages the experiential knowledge of people with visual impairments. The Metanarrative …
Portraits of Violence
Portraits of Violence explores the image and idea of facial disfigurement in one of its most troubling modern formations, as a symbol and consequence of war. It opens with Nina …
Diaphanous Bodies
Diaphanous Bodies: Ability, Disability, and Modernist Irish Literature examines ability, as a category of embodiment and embodied experience, and in the process opens up a new area …
Cripping Girlhood
Cripping Girlhood offers a new theorization of disabled girlhood, tracing how and why representations of disabled girls emerge with frequency in twenty-first century U.S. media …
Revels in Madness
"Fascinating and important . . . a work of prodigious scholarship, covering the entire history of Western thought and treating both literary and medical discourses with subtlety …
The Songs of Blind Folk
"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 …
By Touch Alone
By Touch Alone demonstrates how reading by touch not only changed the lives of nineteenth-century blind people, but also challenged long-standing perceptions about blindness and …
Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry
"Moving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry" offers an analysis and critique of contemporary psychiatric practice from a variety of critical perspectives, ranging from …