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A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age (The Cultural Histories Series) by David Bolt; Robert McRuer; Christian Laes; Jonathan Horng Hsy; Tory Vandeventer Pearman; Joshua Eyler; Susan Anderson, Dr.; Liam D Haydon; Chris Gabbard; Susannah B Mintz; Joyce L Huff; Martha Stoddard Holmes; David T Mitchell; Sharon L Snyder is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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If eugenics -- the science of eliminating kinds of undesirable human beings from the species record -- came to overdetermine the late nineteenth century in relation to disability, the twentieth 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 bodymind 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, cultu
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- Author
- David Bolt; Robert McRuer; Christian Laes; Jonathan Horng Hsy; Tory Vandeventer Pearman; Joshua Eyler; Susan Anderson, Dr.; Liam D Haydon; Chris Gabbard; Susannah B Mintz; Joyce L Huff; Martha Stoddard Holmes; David T Mitchell; Sharon L Snyder
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc; Bloomsbury Academic
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781350029309
- Category
- nonfiction
Other editions & translations
- A Cultural History of Disability in the Middle Ages (The Cultural Histories Series) (2022)
- A Cultural History of Disability in Antiquity (Cultural Histories) (2022)
- A Cultural History of Disability in Antiquity (The Cultural Histories) (2022)
- A Cultural History of Disability in the Renaissance (The Cultural Histories Series) (2022)
- A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cultural Histories) (2022)
- A cultural history of disability in antiquity. Volume 1 (2020)
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