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Enforcing normalcy : disability, deafness, and the body /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davis, Lennard J., 1949-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Verso, 1995.
Subjects:
Sociology of disability.
People with disabilities > Social conditions.
Deaf > Social conditions.
Deafness > Social aspects.
Discrimination against people with disabilities.
Human body > Social aspects.
Disability studies.
Gehandicapten.
Discriminatie.
Doofheid.
Beeldvorming.
Behinderung.
Gesellschaft.
handicap > incapacité.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Disability studies
Online Access:Table of contents
Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Disability, the missing term in the race, class, gender triad
  • Constructing normalcy
  • Universalizing marginality : how Europe became deaf in the eighteenth century
  • Nationalism and deafness : the nineteenth century
  • Deafness and insight : disability and theory
  • Visualizing the disabled body : the classical nude and the fragmented torso
  • Conclusion : Uneasy positions : disability and multiculturalism.