The following may be of interest to some on this list.
Best wishes
Mairian
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DISABILITY/POSTMODERNITY: EMBODYING DISABILITY THEORY
Edited by Mairian Corker and Tom Shakespeare
London: Continuum, 2002
ISBN 0-8264-5055-5 (pbk); 0-8264-5056-3 (hbk)
Among the first to look at disability in the context of postmodernity, this
international collection aims both to demystify the concept of
postmodernity, and to explore how 'postmodern' approaches to the study of
disability challenge the myth of the unitary disabled subject in ways that
deepen our understanding of the possibilities for emancipation and
interdependence. In particular, the book seeks to create 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 to disability studies. The collection includes:
- theoretical perspectives, looking especially at phenomenology, aesthetics,
ethics and feminisms;
- 'postmodern' concepts of disability, impairment, the body, difference,
identity and culture;
- the social constitution of disability from a range of social and cultural
perspectives, including those of disabled children, men with cerebral palsy,
people with learning difficulties, disabled people in India and Japan, and
survivors of madness and mental distress;
- different kinds of research data, including talk in interaction,
narrative, and visual representations.
CONTENTS:
Foreword: 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 Titchkosky
9. 'Defusing the adverse context of disability and desirability as a
practice of the self for men with cerebral palsy'. Russell Shuttleworth
10. 'Changing the subject: Postmodernity and people with learning
difficulties'. 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-erates, 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
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