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Disability in Twentieth-century German culture / CArol Poore.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Poore, Carol.
- Series:
- Corporealities.
- Corporealities : discourses of disability
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- People with disabilities--Germany--History--20th century.
- People with disabilities.
- People with disabilities--Germany--Public opinion.
- Public opinion--Germany.
- Public opinion.
- People with disabilities--Nazi persecution.
- People with disabilities--United States--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (430 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : Univ of Michigan Pr., 2009, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A groundbreaking exploration of disability in Germany, from the Weimar Republic to present-day reunified Germany
- Contents:
- Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; Preface; 1. Disability in the Culture of the Weimar Republic; 2. Disability and Nazi Culture; 3. No Friends of the Third Reich: Different Views of Disability from Exile; 4. Disability in the Defeated Nation: The Federal Republic; 5. Breaking the Spell of Metaphor: Three Examples from Film, Literature, and the Media; 6. Disability and Socialist Images of the Human Being in the Culture of the German Democratic Republic; 7. Disability Rights, Disability Culture, Disability Studies
- 8. German/American Bodies Politic: A Look at Some Current Biocultural Debates9. We Shall Overcome Overcoming: An American Professor's Reflections on Disability in Germany and the United States; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index of Names
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-59153-3
- 9786612591532
- 0-472-02531-7
- OCLC:
- 647888945
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