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| Title: | The body and physical difference : discourses of disability / |
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| Database Name: | WorldCat |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David T Mitchell; Sharon L Snyder |
| ISBN: | 0472096591 (hardcover : acid-free paper); 9780472096596 (hardcover : acid-free paper); 0472066595 (pbk. : acid-free paper); 9780472066599 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
| Notes: | Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references. Content: 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 - "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. |
| Description: | xiv, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| 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 - "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. |
| Responsibility: | David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder, editors ; foreword by James I. Porter. |
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Body and physical difference. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1997 (OCoLC)645878760 |
| Year: | c1997. |
| Publisher: | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, |
| Standard Numbers: | LCCN: 97020579; National Library: 101089522 |
| Class Descriptors: | LC Class No.: HV1568; Dewey No.: 362.4 |
| Series: | The body, in theory : histories of cultural materialism; Variation: Body, in theory. |
| OCLC No.: | 36977200 |
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