| Description |
xiv, 299 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The body, in theory : histories of cultural materialism |
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Body, in theory.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction : disability studies and the double bind of representation / David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder -- Constructions of physical disability in the ancient Greek world : the community concept / Martha L. Edwards -- Nude venuses, Medusa's body, and phantom limbs : disability and visuality / Lennard J. Davis -- Disfigurement and reconstruction in Oliver Wendell Holmes's "The human wheel, its spokes and felloes" / David D. Yuan -- Defining the defective : eugenics, aesthetics, and mass culture in early-twentieth-century America / Martin S. Pernick -- In search of Al Schmid : war hero, blinded veteran, everyman / David A. Gerber -- Conspicuous contribution and American cultural dilemmas : telethon rituals of cleansing and renewal / Paul K Longmore -- Feminotopias : the pleasures of "deformity" in mid-eighteenth-century England / Felicity A. Nussbaum -- "A prisoner to the couch" : Harriet Martineau, invalidism, and self-representation / Maria Frawley -- "It is more than lame" : female disability, sexuality, and the maternal in the nineteenth-century novel / Cindy LaCom -- The "talking cure" (again) : gossip and the paralyzed patriarchy / Jan Gordon -- From social welfare to civil rights : the representation of disability in twentieth-century German literature / Elizabeth C. Hamilton -- Disabled women as powerful women in Petry, Morrison, and Lorde : revising black female subjectivity / Rosemarie Garland Thomson -- Muteness and mutilation : the aesthetics of disability in Jane Campion's The piano / Caroline Molina -- "Making up the stories as we go along" : men, women, and narratives of disability / Madonne Miner. |
| Subject |
Sociology of disability.
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Humanities -- Social aspects -- Methodology.
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| Added Author |
Mitchell, David T., 1962-
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Snyder, Sharon L., 1963-
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| ISBN |
0472096591 (hardcover : acid-free paper) |
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0472066595 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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