| 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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| 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 |
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"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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Disability studies.
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Humanities -- Social aspects -- Methodology.
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Sociology of disability.
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| Author |
Mitchell, David T., 1962-
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Snyder, Sharon L., 1963-
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| LC no. |
97020579 |
| ISBN |
0472066595 acid-free paper paperback |
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0472096591 acid-free paper hardback |
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