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"Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness & the Body" by Lennard J. Davis 1995 VERSO:London Page 5 On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:14:02 +0530 anitravi <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi > Following is a quote from Davies. can anyone help me trace the page number? > Thanks > anita Ghai > "The body is seen as a site of "jouissance" that defies reason, that takes dominant culture and its rigid, power-laden vision of the body to task. The nightmare of that [disabled] body is one that is deformed, maimed, mutilated, broken, diseased. Rather than face this ragged image, the critic turns to the fluids of sexuality, the gloss of lubrication, the glossary of the body as text, the heteroglossia of the intertext, the glossalia of the schizophrenic. But almost never to the body of the differently abled." > > ________________End of message______________________ > > Archives and tools for the Disability-Research Discussion List > are now located at: > > www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html > > You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page. > ---------------------- Herkiran Toor, BT Project Manager Access Unit - Short Courses & Outreach University of Bristol - Union Building Queen's Road Bristol BS8 1LN 0117 954 5717 [log in to unmask] ________________End of message______________________ Archives and tools for the Disability-Research Discussion List are now located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page.