Enforcing Normalcy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Enforcing Normalcy write by Lennard J. Davis. This book was released on 2014-08-19. Enforcing Normalcy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against “ableist” discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself. Enforcing Normalcy surveys the emergence of a cluster of concepts around the term “normal” as these matured in western Europe and the United States over the past 250 years. Linking such notions to the concurrent emergence of discourses about the nation, Davis shows how the modern nation-state constructed its identity on the backs not only of colonized subjects, but of its physically disabled minority. In a fascinating chapter on contemporary cultural theory, Davis explores the pitfalls of privileging the figure of sight in conceptualizing the nature of textuality. And in a treatment of nudes and fragmented bodies in Western art, he shows how the ideal of physical wholeness is both demanded and denied in the classical aesthetics of representation. Enforcing Normalcy redraws the boundaries of political and cultural discourse. By insisting that disability be added to the familiar triad of race, class and gender, the book challenges progressives to expand the limits of their thinking about human oppression.
Bending Over Backwards
Bending Over Backwards - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bending Over Backwards write by Lennard J. Davis. This book was released on 2002-09. Bending Over Backwards available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text re-examines issues concerning the relationship between disability and normality in the light of postmodern theory and political activism. It argues that disability can become the new prism through which postmodernity examines and defines itself.
The End of Normal
The End of Normal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The End of Normal write by Lennard Davis. This book was released on 2014-01-03. The End of Normal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In an era when human lives are increasingly measured and weighed in relation to the medical and scientific, notions of what is “normal” have changed drastically. While it is no longer useful to think of a person’s particular race, gender, sexual orientation, or choice as “normal,” the concept continues to haunt us in other ways. In The End of Normal, Lennard J. Davis explores changing perceptions of body and mind in social, cultural, and political life as the twenty-first century unfolds. The book’s provocative essays mine the worlds of advertising, film, literature, and the visual arts as they consider issues of disability, depression, physician-assisted suicide, medical diagnosis, transgender, and other identities. Using contemporary discussions of biopower and biopolitics, Davis focuses on social and cultural production—particularly on issues around the different body and mind. The End of Normal seeks an analysis that works comfortably in the intersection between science, medicine, technology, and culture, and will appeal to those interested in cultural studies, bodily practices, disability, science and medical studies, feminist materialism, psychiatry, and psychology.
Enforcing Normalcy
Enforcing Normalcy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Enforcing Normalcy write by Lennard J. Davis. This book was released on 1995-12-17. Enforcing Normalcy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book proposes that instead of seeing disabilities as impairments, we consider the ways that criticism can change and expand when we allow for included disabled critical moments.
Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane
Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane write by Rebecca Mallett. This book was released on 2016-07-22. Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Emerging from the internationally recognised Theorising Normalcy and the Mundane conference series, the chapters in this book offer wide-ranging critiques of that most pervasive of ideas, 'normal'. In particular, they explore the precarious positions we are presented with and, more often than not, forced into by 'normal', and its operating system, 'normalcy' (Davis, 2010). They are written by activists, students, practitioners and academics and offer related but diverse approaches. Importantly, however, the chapters also ask, what if increasingly precarious encounters with, and positions of, marginality and non-normativity offers us a chance (perhaps the chance) to critically explore the possibilities of 'imagining otherwise'? The book questions the privileged position of 'non-normativity'; in youth and unpacks the expectation of the 'normal' student in both higher and primary education. It uses the position of transable people to push the boundaries of 'disability', interrogates the psycho-emotional disablism of box-ticking bureaucracy and spotlights the 'urge to know' impairment. It draws on cross-movement and cross-disciplinary work around disability to explore topics as diverse as drug use, The Bible and relational autonomy. Finally, and perhaps most controversially, it explores the benefits of (re)instating 'normal'. By paying attention to the opportunities presented amongst the fissures of critique and defiance, this book offers new applications and perspectives for thinking through the most ordinary of ideas, 'normal'.
