Author : David T. Mitchell
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Eugenics
ISBN : 9780472066599
Groundbreaking perspectives on disability in culture and the arts that shed light on notions of identity and social marginality
Author : David T. Mitchell
Publisher :
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 18,85 MB
Release : 2000
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Author : Matthew Kohrman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 28,71 MB
Release : 2005-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520226445
Annotation A study of the culture of disability in China and the emergence of the government institution known as the China Disabled Persons' Federation.
Author : David T. Mitchell
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 22,99 MB
Release : 2014-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0472120808
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 film. It argues that, while other marginalized identities have suffered cultural exclusion due to a dearth of images reflecting their experience, the marginality of disabled people has occurred in the midst of the perpetual circulation of images of disability in print and visual media. The manuscript's six chapters offer comparative readings of key texts in the history of disability representation, including the tin soldier and lame Oedipus, Montaigne's "infinities of forms" and Nietzsche's "higher men," the performance history of Shakespeare's Richard III, Melville's Captain Ahab, the small town grotesques of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio and Katherine Dunn's self-induced freaks in Geek Love. David T. Mitchell is Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies, Northern Michigan University. Sharon L. Snyder is Assistant Professor of Film and Literature, Northern Michigan University.
Author : Henderikus J Stam
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 1998-04-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0857026208
The body has come to provide a central site for theory and debate from social theory to cultural studies. This important and compelling book looks beyond psychology′s traditional biological body to explore what insights can be gained from recent theories of embodiment. Taking the body as inscribed by social and disciplinary practices, leading contributors explore a wide range of psychological topics in new and challenging ways. Questions surrounding health, gender, history and culture are addressed in contexts such as the psychology of pain, the treatment of anorexia nervosa, and psychology′s relationship to transgender activists. The material in this volume was previously published as a Special Issue of the journal Theory & Psychology.
Author : Julia Twigg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 28,33 MB
Release : 2006-03-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1137021438
Focusing on health and social care, this book shows how important the body can be to a range of issues such as disability, old age, sexuality, consumption, food and public space. Twigg illustrates how constructions of the body affect how we see different social groups and explores the significance of it in the provision and delivery of care.
Author : Kristina Richardson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 30,94 MB
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0748664912
A revealing portrait of Medieval Arab notions of physical difference, this book uses close analysis of primary sources to bring to light cultural views and lived experiences of disability and difference.
Author : Henry Yu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 13,99 MB
Release : 2002-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0190287993
Thinking Orientals is a groundbreaking study of Asian Americans and the racial formation of twentieth-century American society. It reveals the influential role Asian Americans played in constructing the understandings of Asian American identity. It examines the unique role played by sociologists, particularly sociologists at the University of Chicago, in the study of the "Oriental Problem" before World War II and also analyzes the internment of Japanese Americans during the war and the subsequent "model minority" profile.
Author : Christina Bieber Lake
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 36,1 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780865549432
The Incarnational Art of Flannery O'Connor argues that O'Connor designed a unique asthetic to defy the Gnostic dualisms that characterize American intellectual and spiritual life. Focusing on stories with artist figures, objets d'art, child protagonists, and embodied images, Lake describes how O'Connor's fiction actively resisted romantic theories of the imagination and religious life by highlighting the epistemological necessity of the body. Ultimately O'Connor challenges the romantic and modern notion of the artist as a fire-stealing Prometheus and replaces it with a notion of the artist as a locally committed craftsman. Drawing upon M. M. Bakhtin's early essays in Art and Answerability and Toward a Philosophy of the Act, Lake illustrates O'Connor's conviction that art deliberately assigns the highest value of transcendental beauty to those beings least valued by the modern world, and challenges us to do the same. The book culminates with an original reading of Parker's Back that shows how in art, as in life, true knowledge comes to us through our own grotesque bodies and those of others. Unafraid of the mystery of being human, art can be the place where we encounter anew the world as more than what the intellect can unravel.
Author : Jamie A. Thomas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 20,31 MB
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1498563872
Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, we study marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic schema. Whereas mass incarceration and law enforcement readily feature in discussions of institutionalized racism, we differently highlight understudied sites of normalization and exclusion. Our combined effort centers upon physical contexts (skeletons, pageant stages, gentrifying neighborhoods), discursive spaces (medical textbooks, legal battles, dance pedagogy, vampire narratives) and philosophical arenas (morality, genocide, physician-assisted suicide, cryonic preservation, transfeminism) to deconstruct seemingly intrinsic connections between body and behavior, Whiteness and normativity.
