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Disability/postmodernity: embodying disability theory
- Editors:
- CORKER Marian, SHAKESPEARE Tom
- Publisher:
- Continuum
- Publication year:
- 2002
- Pagination:
- 249p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
This book offers a bridge between social science perspectives on disability (predominant in disability studies in the UK for example) and humanities perspectives (which dominate the US approach). The authors aim to demystify the concept of postmodernity and to suggest ways in which it fosters a holistic approach to the study of disability that better represents and reflects the complexity of disabled people's experience. The book opens with an exploration of theoretical perspectives, looking especially at the body and at concepts of difference and identity. The second section deals with culture, discussing aesthetics, narrative, film, architecture and design, while the final section explores social practice, discussing issues which include disabled children's perspectives, sexual identity and 'madness and distress.'