Emerging Thoughts in Disability and Humanness examines the role of embodied disablement in providing an important but often circumvented analysis of the explicit and implicit nature of the legitimate human body, its symbolism, and responses that such bodies elicit from diverse local through global social and cultural entities. The various sections of the book introduce the theoretical and historical foundations for analyzing humanness, and the role of the atypical body in determining membership, meaning and worth; examine embodied criteria of “humanness” and offending corporeal characteristics; describe and analyze how offenders are identified and depicted in diverse contexts; delve into how these bodies are met with praxis and axiological responses from revision through exclusion; and invoke contemporary post-postmodernist marriages of varied disciplines as frameworks for returning creative substance into rethinking disability within the textured fabric of humanness.
Table of Content
List of Figures; Part 1 Foundations; 1. Legitimate and Offending Bodies; 2. Bedrock Constructs; 3. Looking Back; Part 2 Violations; 4. The Offensive Scope; 5. The Tool Kit; 6. The Language of Violation; 7. The Visual Violator; 8. Spaces and Places; Part 3 Responses; 9. Revising the Illegitimate; 10. Reinvention; 11. Denial; Part 4 Rethinking Humanness; 12. Negotiating Humanness; 13. Expansion and Commencement; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Elizabeth De Poy is a professor at the Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies, the School of Social Work and cooperating faculty in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maine. Within Disability Studies her teaching and scholarship focus on methods of inquiry and progressive analysis of disability.Stephen Gilson is professor and coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Disability Studies program in the Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies and professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Maine. His primary scholarship analyzes the role of design and aesthetics in creating disability as a human category.
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