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The body and physical difference: discourses on disability
- Editors:
- MITCHELL David T., SNYDER Sharon L., (eds)
- Publisher:
- University of Michigan Press
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 300p.
- Place of publication:
- Ann Arbor, MI
The book seeks to introduce the field of disability studies into the humanities by exploring the fantasies and fictions that have crystallized around conceptions of physical and cognitive difference. Based on the premise that the significance of disabilities in culture and the arts has been culturally vexed as well as historically erased, the collection probes our society's pathological investment in human variability and "aberrancy." The contributors demonstrate how definitions of disability underpin fundamental concepts such as normalcy, health, bodily integrity, individuality, citizenship, and morality--all terms that define the very essence of what it means to be human. The book provides a provocative range of topics and perspectives: the absence of physical "otherness" in Ancient Greece, the depiction of the female invalid in Victorian literature, the production of tragic innocence in British and American telethons, the reconstruction of Civil War amputees, and disability as the aesthetic basis for definitions of expendable life within the modern eugenics movement. With this new, secure anchoring in the humanities, disability studies now emerges as a significant strain in contemporary theories of identity and social marginality. Moving beyond the oversimplication that disabled people are marginalized and made invisible by able-ist assumptions and practices, the contributors demonstrate that representation is founded upon the perpetual exhibition of human anomalies. In this sense, all art can be said to migrate toward the "freakish" and the "grotesque." Such a project paradoxically makes disability the exception and the rule of the desire to represent that which has been traditionally out-of-bounds in polite discourse.
A garden of the imagination
- Author:
- GARTLAND Jo
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 19.11.97, 1997, pp.29-30.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Explains how the creation of a sensory garden was used to treat children with severe learning and health disabilities.
Realm of the senses
- Authors:
- GILLYON Moira, LAMBERT Theresa
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 7.5.97, 1997, pp.32-35.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
The authors describe a colourful an innovative project to develop a sensory garden to stimulate the senses of clients with severe learning or physical disabilities.
Children with learning and other disabilities: some key legislation
- Author:
- RUSSELL Philippa
- Publisher:
- Council for Disabled Children
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 11p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Lists and describes key legislation affecting disabled children and children with learning difficulties.
Sheltered employment in five member states of the Council of Europe: Austria, Finland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland
- Authors:
- SAMOY Erik, WATERPLAS Lina
- Publisher:
- Council of Europe
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 67p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- Strasbourg
Comparative study looking at the situation of sheltered employment in the twelve Member States of the European Union. The data for each country is grouped under the following headings: institutional context; target population; access to sheltered employment; characteristics of the people in sheltered employment; and a discussion of the topics currently under debate around sheltered employment in each country.
Michelle finds a voice
- Authors:
- HOLLINS Sheila, BARNETT Sarah
- Publishers:
- Gaskell, St. George's Hospital Medical School
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 44p.,list of orgs.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Presents the story of a young woman with cerebral palsy who is unable to speak. She feels isolated and unhappy and similarly her carers are frustrated in their attempts to understand or recognise her needs. Illustrates what happens to Michelle and how she and her carers are helped to overcome these difficulties. Various solutions are explored, including the use of signing, symbol charts and electronic communication. There is written text at the end of the book which provides one possible narrative for the pictures in the main part of the text.
Critical review on legislative definitions of people with disabilities in Japan
- Author:
- SATO Hisao
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Policy and Social Work, 1, March 1997, pp.31-39.
- Publisher:
- Japan College of Social Work
This article considers the different legislative definitions of people with disabilities in Japan covering Disabled Persons' Fundamental law, Law for Welfare of Persons with Mental Disorder, National Pension Law and Law for Welfare of Physically Disabled Persons. It points out the unreasonable exclusion of some types of disability from legislative definitions and the inconsistency between current definitions.
Locating self-advocacy in models of disability: understanding disability in the support of self-advocates with learning difficulties
- Author:
- GOODLEY Dan
- Journal article citation:
- Disability and Society, 12(3), June 1997, pp.367-379.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Explores different understandings of disability and examines how these are or can be implicated in the self-advocacy movement. First, the effects of the dominant individual or personal tragedy model of disability on self-advocacy is examined with reference to the advisor's position. Secondly, self-advocacy framed in terms of the alternative social model of disability is presented. Finally, understanding self-advocacy in terms of the social model is taken further. It is suggested that self-advocates themselves directly challenge dominant understandings of disability in general and can contribute to the formulation of a social theory of disability.
Body armour
- Authors:
- SPOWART-TAYLOR Ann, PROUD Stephanie
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 5.6.97, 1997, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Argues that definitions of disability under the recent legislation which makes discrimination against disabled people unlawful are proving complex and confusing. Attempts to clarify the issues.
Discrimination. Will the act help?
- Author:
- LETTS Penny
- Journal article citation:
- Community Living, 10(3), January 1997, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- Hexagon Publishing
Describes the main provisions of the Disability Discrimination Act, when they come into force and the main criticisms of the Act. Argues that it has been left to disabled people themselves and the organisations representing them to interpret the complex rules that make up the Act.