Author: Susan Foster
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: power, culture, knowledge, corporealities
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1995-12-14
List price: $46.95
ISBN-10: 0415121396
ISBN-13: 9780415121392

Corporealities vivifies the study of bodies through a consideration of bodily reality, not as natural or absolute given but as tangible and substantial category of cultural experience. The essays in this volume summon up bodies engaged in practices as diverse as pageantry, physical education, festivals and exhibitions, tourism, social and theatrical dance, and post-colonial and psychoanalytic encounters. They bring these bodies to life, quivering with all the political, gendered, social, racial, sexual, and aesthetic resonances of which bodily motion is capable. Dancing wends its way through

Author: Chantal Nadeau
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: writing, corporealities, bardot, brigitte, nation, beaver, fur
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-08-13
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0415158745
ISBN-13: 9780415158749

Fur Nation traces the interwoven relationships between sexuality, national identity, and colonialism. She shows how, in postcolonial Canada, the nation is sexualized around female reproduction and fur, which is both a crucial factor in economic development, and a powerful symbol through which the nation itself is conceived and commodified.

Author: Bradley E. Lewis
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: postpsychiatry, corporealities, discourses, disability, birth, psychiatry, prozac, dsm, new, moving
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2006-02-02
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0472031171
ISBN-13: 9780472031177

"Interesting and fresh-represents an important and vigorous challenge to a discipline that at the moment is stuck in its own devices and needs a radical critique to begin to move ahead."--Paul McHugh, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine"Remarkable in its breadth-an interesting and valuable contribution to the burgeoning literature of the philosophy of psychiatry."--Christian Perring, Dowling CollegeMoving Beyond Prozac, DSM, and the New Psychiatry looks at contemporary psychiatric practice from a variety of critical perspectives ranging from Michel Foucault to Donna Haraway. This contr

Author: Tobin Anthony Siebers
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: disability, discourses, theory, corporealities
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-06-16
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0472050397
ISBN-13: 9780472050390

"Disability Theory is just the book we’ve been waiting for. Clear, cogent, compelling analyses of the tension between the ’social model’ of disability and the material details of impairment; of identity politics and unstable identities; of capability rights and human interdependence; of disability and law, disability as masquerade, disability and sexuality, disability and democracy---they’re all here, in beautifully crafted and intellectually startling essays. Disability Theory is a field-defining book: and if you’re curious about what ’disability’ has

Author: Linda Hamilton Krieger
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: disability, corporealities, discourses, rights, backlash, reinterpreting, ada
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2003-03-24
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0472068253
ISBN-13: 9780472068258

For civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly unanimous U.S. House and Senate and a Republican President seemed almost fantastic. Within five years of the Act’s effective date, however, observers were warning of an unfolding assault on the ADA by federal judges, the media, and other national opinion-makers. A year after the Supreme Court issued a trio of decisions in the summer of 1999 sharply limiting the ADA’s reach, another decisio