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Author: Henri-Jacques Stiker ,
William Sayers
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
Imprint: The University of Michigan Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 3.40cm
, Length: 23.00cm
Weight: 0.550kg
ISBN: 9780472110636
ISBN 10: 0472110632
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 19 January 2000
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
[Stiker's] challenge to those of us who are concerned with disability is to question our faith in the desirability of sameness and to challenge the dissolution that that faith requires. --Ragged Edge--Cal Montgomery Ragged Edge (06/07/2001) A History of Disability should be read by everyone interested in any aspect of Disability Studies and every library should own a copy. The brilliant conceptualization of disability makes this an indispensable tool in Disability Studies. --Disability Studies Quarterly-- (08/07/2001) [P]rovides tools for readers to explore how terms such as 'assimilation, ' 'integration, ' and 'inclusion' came to be so problematic in today's contests over identity. At the same time, it urges us to question our ultimate social and political goals, while asking where our ideals originate and what they say about modern civilization. --American Historical Review-- (04/05/2004) Henri-Jacques Stiker's reflection on the exclusion of disabled bodies, the product of vast anthropological, historical, and social research, is a rigorous and passionate meditation. It ranges from the Oedipus myth through the Bible, the Gospels, Islam, mysticism, philosophy, and biology, all the way to current legislation . . . Stiker leads us to see people with disabilities as ourselves---not as machines but as explorers of the impossible. --Julia Kristeva-- (11/18/1999)
[Stiker's] challenge to those of us who are concerned with disability is to question our faith in the desirability of sameness and to challenge the dissolution that that faith requires. ---Cal Montgomery, Ragged Edge, 2001: No. 3 -- (06/07/2001) . . . A History of Disability should be read by everyone interested in any aspect of Disability Studies and every library should own a copy. The brilliant conceptualization of disability makes this an indispensable tool in Disability Studies. ---Martha L. Rose, Truman State University, DSQ, Spring 2001 -- (08/07/2001) . . . provides tools for readers to explore how terms such as 'assimilation, ' 'integration, ' and 'inclusion' came to be so problematic in today's contests over identity. At the same time, it urges us to question our ultimate social and political goals, while asking where our ideals originate and what they say about modern civilization. ---American Historical Review -- (04/05/2004) Henri-Jacques Stiker's reflection on the exclusion of disabled bodies, the product of vast anthropological, historical, and social research, is a rigorous and passionate meditation. It ranges from the Oedipus myth through the Bible, the Gospels, Islam, mysticism, philosophy, and biology, all the way to current legislation . . . Stiker leads us to see people with disabilities as ourselves---not as machines but as explorers of the impossible. ---Julia Kristeva -- (11/18/1999)
Author Information
Henri-Jacques Stiker is director of research at Laboratoire ""Identités, cultures, territoires"" at Université Paris-Diderot, Paris 7, and is co-founder and editorial director of ALTER, European Journal of Disability Research. He is the author of Culture brisée, culture à naître; Corps infirmes et sociétés; Pour le débat démocratique, la question du handicap; Les fables peintes du corps abîmé, les images de l'infirmité du XVIè au XXè siècle; Les métamorphoses du handicap de 1970 à nos jours, soi-même avec les autres; and Religions et handicap, interdit, péché, symbole, une analyse anthropologique.
