Format:
1 Online-Ressource
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Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
9781350029323
Series Statement:
Cultural histories series 6
Content:
List of Illustrations -- Notes of Contributors -- Series Preface -- Introduction : What We Talk About When We Talk About Disability / David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder, George Washington University -- Chapter 1. Atypical Bodies : Queer-Feminist and Buddhist Perspectives / Bee Scherer, Canterbury Christ Church University -- Chapter 2. Mobility Impairment : Impairing Mobilities into the Twenty-first Century / Fiona Kumari Campbell, University of Dundee -- Chapter 3. Chronic Pain and Illness : States of Privilege and Bodies of Abuse / Theodora Danylevich. George Washington University -- Chapter 4. Blindness : A Cultural History of Blindness / Rod Michalko and Tanya Titchkosky, University of Toronto -- Chapter 5. Deafness : Screeing Signs in Contemporary Cinema / Sam Yates, George Washington University -- Chapter 6. Speech : Speech Disability's Awkward Later Modernity : A Multimodal Historical Approach / Zahari Richter, George Washington University -- Chapter 7. Learning Difficulties : A Cultural History of Learning Difficulties in the Modern Age / Owen Barden, Hope Liverpool University -- Chapter 8. Mental Health Issues : Managing the Mind in the Modern Age / Anne McGuire, University of Toronto -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
If eugenics--the science of eliminating kinds of undesirable human beings from the species record--came to overdetermine the late nineteenth century in relation to disability, the twentieth century may be best characterized as managing the repercussions for variable human populations. A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age provides an interdisciplinary overview of disability as an outpouring of professional, political, and representational efforts to fix, correct, eliminate, preserve, and even cultivate the value of crip bodies. This book pursues analyses of disability's deployment as a wellspring for an alternative ethics of living in and alongside the body different while simultaneously considering the varied social and material contexts of devalued human differences from World War I to the present. In short, this volume demonstrates that, in Ozymandias-like ways, the Western Project of the Human with its perpetuation of bodymind hierarchies lies crumbling in the deserts of failed empires, genocidal furies, and the rejuvenating myths of new nation states in the 20th century. An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture, philosophy, rehabilitation, technology, and education, A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age explores such themes and topics as: atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health while wrestling with their status as unreliable predictors of what constitutes undesirable humanity
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350029309
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350029316
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350029293
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350029538
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350029323
