Cultural locations of disability / Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snyder, Sharon L., 1963-

Contributor:

Mitchell, David T., 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology of disability.

People with disabilities--Social conditions.

People with disabilities.

People with disabilities--Government policy.

People with disabilities in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Cultural Locations of Disability, Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell trace how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. The eugenics era pioneered techniques that managed "defectives" through the application of therapies, invasive case histories, and acute surveillance techniques, turning disabled persons into subjects for a readily available research pool. In its pursuit of normalization, eugenics implemented disability regulations that included charity systems, marriage laws, sterilization, institutionalization, and even extermination. Enacted in enclosed disability locations, these practices ultimately resulted in expectations of segregation from the mainstream, leaving today's disability politics to focus on reintegration, visibility, inclusion, and the right of meaningful public participation. Snyder and Mitchell reveal cracks in the social production of human variation as aberrancy. From our modern obsessions with tidiness and cleanliness to our desire to attain perfect bodies, notions of disabilities as examples of human insufficiency proliferate. These disability practices infuse more general modes of social obedience at work today. Consequently, this important study explains how disabled people are instrumental to charting the passage from a disciplinary society to one based upon regulation of the self.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Cultural Locations of Disability

Part I. Dis-locations of Culture

Part II. Echoes of Eugenics

Part III. Institutionalizing Disability Studies

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-235) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786612679322

9781282679320

1282679325

9780226767307

0226767302

OCLC:

648761349