Bending Over Backwards
With the advent of the human genome, cloning, stem-cell research and many other developments in the way we think of the body, disability studies provides an entirely new way of thinking about the body in its relation to politics, the environment, the legal system, and global economies. Bending Over...
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2024
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| description | With the advent of the human genome, cloning, stem-cell research and many other developments in the way we think of the body, disability studies provides an entirely new way of thinking about the body in its relation to politics, the environment, the legal system, and global economies. Bending Over Backwards reexamines issues concerning the relationship between disability and normality in the light of postmodern theory and political activism. Davis takes up homosexuality, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the legal system, the history of science and medicine, eugenics, and genetics. Throughout, he maintains that disability is the prime category of postmodernity because it redefines the body in relation to concepts of normalcy, which underlie the very foundations of democracy and humanistic ideas about the body. Bending Over Backwards argues that disability can become the new prism through which postmodernity examines and defines itself, supplanting the categories of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1360802025-07-18T09:46:44Z Bending Over Backwards Davis, Lennard J. Disability: social aspects thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFM Disability: social aspects thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFM Disability: social aspects With the advent of the human genome, cloning, stem-cell research and many other developments in the way we think of the body, disability studies provides an entirely new way of thinking about the body in its relation to politics, the environment, the legal system, and global economies. Bending Over Backwards reexamines issues concerning the relationship between disability and normality in the light of postmodern theory and political activism. Davis takes up homosexuality, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the legal system, the history of science and medicine, eugenics, and genetics. Throughout, he maintains that disability is the prime category of postmodernity because it redefines the body in relation to concepts of normalcy, which underlie the very foundations of democracy and humanistic ideas about the body. Bending Over Backwards argues that disability can become the new prism through which postmodernity examines and defines itself, supplanting the categories of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. 2024-04-04T04:02:55Z 2024-04-04T04:02:55Z 2024-04-03T10:10:14Z 2002 book ONIX_20240403_9781479820108_78 OCN: 1314610944 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/89360 9781479820108 9780814719497 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/136080 eng Cultural Front open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/89360/1/9781479820108_WEB.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/89360/1/9781479820108_WEB.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/89360/1/9781479820108_WEB.pdf New York University Press NYU Press 10.18574/nyu/9781479820108.001.0001 10.18574/nyu/9781479820108.001.0001 13ae9bf8-b4bf-47bb-be6d-71e5675ace48 9781479820108 9780814719497 NYU Press New York open access |
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