A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age
The sixth volume of “A Cultural History of Disability” is devoted to disability in modern age. If eugenics — the science of eliminating kinds of undesirable human beings from the species record — came to overdetermine the late 19th century in relation to disability, the 20th century may be best characterized as managing the repercussions for variable human populations. “A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age” provides an interdisciplinary overview of disability as an outpouring of professional, political, and representational efforts to fix, correct, eliminate, preserve, and even cultivate the value of crip bodies. This book pursues analyses of disability's deployment as a wellspring for an alternative ethics of living in and alongside the body different while simultaneously considering the varied social and material contexts of devalued human differences from World War I to the present. In short, this volume demonstrates that, in Ozymandias‑like ways, the Western Project of the Human with its perpetuation of body‑mind hierarchies lies crumbling in the deserts of failed empires, genocidal furies, and the rejuvenating myths of new nation states in the 20th century. An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture, philosophy, rehabilitation, technology, and education, “A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age” explores such themes and topics as: atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health while wrestling with their status as unreliable predictors of what constitutes undesirable humanity.
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Inclusiveness, 20th‑century history, Cinema, Psychoanalysis, Body, Differences theory, Feminism, Philosophy
Danylevich Theodora (Article author), Barden Owen (Article author), Scherer Bee (Article author), Michalko Rod (Article author), Richter Zahari (Article author), Campbell Fiona Kumari (Article author), McGuire Anne (Article author), Titchkosky Tanya (Article author), Yates Samuel (Article author), Snyder Sharon L. (Preface), Mitchell David T. (Preface)
London
2020
200 pages
9781350029293
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