Overview

With contributions from leading scholars in the USA, Canada, the UK, Switzerland, Japan, India, Australia and Jordan, Disability and Postmodernity is the first book to study disability within the context of the ""postmodern"" world of the twenty-first century. Organized into three sections, the volume opens with an exploration of theoretical perspectives, looking especially at phenomenology, at the body, and at concepts of difference and identity. The second section deals with culture, discussing aesthetics, narrative, film, architecture and design, while the final section explores social practice, including chapters on disabled childrens' perspectives, sexual identity and ""madness and mental distress"".The collection creates a bridge between social science perspectives on disability (predominant in disability studies in the UK for example) and humanities perspectives (which dominate the US approach). The authors aim to demystify the concept of postmodernity and to suggest ways in which it fosters a holistic approach to the study of disability that better represents and reflects the complexity of disabled people's experience. This is a unique and important contribution to both disability studies and social and cultural theory.

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Author:   Mairian Corker ,  Tom Shakespeare ,  Tom Shakespeare
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.376kg
ISBN:  

9780826450555

ISBN 10:   0826450555
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   01 May 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Contributors Foreword by Iris Marion Young 1. Mapping the Terrain Mairian Corker and Tom Shakespeare 2. A Journey around the Social Model Carol Thomas and Mairian Corker 3. On the Subject of Impairment Shelley Tremain 4. A Postmodern Disorder: Moral Encounters with Molecular Models of Disability Jackie Leach Scully 5. Bodies Together: Touch, Ethics and Disability Janet Price and Margrit Shildrick 6. The Body as Embodiment: An Investigation of the Body by Merleau-Ponty Miho Iwakuma 7. Disability in the Indian Context: Post-colonial Perspectives Anita Ghai 8. Cultural Maps: Which Way to Disability? Tanya Tichkosky 9. Defusing the Adverse Context of Disability and Desirability as a Practice of the Self for Men with Cerebral Palsy Russell P. Shuttleworth 10. Changing the Subject: Postmodernity and People with Learning Disabilities Dan Goodley and Mark Rapley 11. Madness, Distress and Postmodernity: Putting the Record Straight Anne Wilson and Peter Beresford 12. Countering Stereotypes of Disability: Disabled Children and Resistance John Davis and Nick Watson 13. Estranged-Familiarity Rod Michalko 14. Image Politics without the Real: Simulacra, Dandyism and Disability Fashion Petra Kuppers 15. De-gene-rates, Replicants and Other Aliens: (Re)defining Disability in Futuristic Film Johnson Cheu 16. Naming and Narrating Disability in Japan James Valentine 17. The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Disability, Ideology and the Aesthetic Anita Silvers Index

Reviews

Disability/postmodernity does well to signal the emergence of a new postmodernist sensibility that has largely failed to emerge from the 'social model' approach to disability research. I found the book both engaging and enjoyable and thoroughly recommend it.--Cassandra Loeser, Research Centre for Gender Studies, University of South Australia, Magill SA Australia

Disability/postmodernity does well to signal the emergence of a new postmodernist sensibility that has largely failed to emerge from the 'social model' approach to disability research. I found the book both engaging and enjoyable and thoroughly recommend it.--Sanford Lakoff

Disability/postmodernity does well to signal the emergence of a new postmodernist sensibility that has largely failed to emerge from the 'social model' approach to disability research. I found the book both engaging and enjoyable and thoroughly recommend it. -- Cassandra Loeser, Research Centre for Gender Studies, University of South Australia, Magill SA Australia

Author Information

University of Lancashire Tom Shakespeare is Senior Lecturer at the Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, UK.

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