Disability/postmodernity : embodying disability theory

Corker, Mairian. (Added Author). Shakespeare, Tom. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780826450555 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780826450562 (hbk.)
ISBN: 0826450555 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0826450563 (hbk.)
Physical Description: print
xiv, 249 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: London ; New York : Continuum, 2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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 P. 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.