Enforcing Normalcy

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Enforcing Normalcy

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Author : Lennard J Davis
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2025-11-18

Enforcing Normalcy written by Lennard J Davis and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-11-18 with Social Science categories.

In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against “ableist” discourse and for a complete recasting of the category of disability itself. Enforcing Normalcy surveys the emergence of a cluster of concepts around the term “normal” as these matured in western Europe and the United States over the past 250 years. Linking such notions to the concurrent emergence of discourses about the nation, Davis shows how the modern nation-state constructed its identity on the backs not only of colonized subjects, but of its physically disabled minority. In a fascinating chapter on contemporary cultural theory, Davis explores the pitfalls of privileging the figure of sight in conceptualizing the nature of textuality. And in a treatment of nudes and fragmented bodies in Western art, he shows how the ideal of physical wholeness is both demanded and denied in the classical aesthetics of representation. Enforcing Normalcy redraws the boundaries of political and cultural discourse. By insisting that disability be added to the familiar triad of race, class and gender, the book challenges progressives to expand the limits of their thinking about human oppression.

Enforcing Normalcy

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Author : Lennard J. Davis
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1995-12-17

Enforcing Normalcy written by Lennard J. Davis and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-12-17 with Health & Fitness categories.

This book proposes that instead of seeing disabilities as impairments, we consider the ways that criticism can change and expand when we allow for included disabled critical moments.

A Transformatory Ethic Of Inclusion

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Author : Jayne Clapton
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2009-01-01

A Transformatory Ethic Of Inclusion written by Jayne Clapton and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Education categories.

Inclusion, is a topical notion which underpins contemporary human service practices and policies within Western Judeo-Christian societies. Inclusion is most often considered within socio-historical and socio-political contexts, whereby technical and legislative responses are sought. However, this book explores the question, "How ethically defensible is the notion of inclusion in relation to people with intellectual disability?" The book contends that inclusion is a multifaceted, complex concept in a dualistic and dichotomous relationship with exclusion. It is argued that historical and contemporary conceptualisations of exclusion for people with intellectual disability have been constructed from various philosophical and theological matrices imbued with particular values about personhood. Furthermore, it is proposed that the ethical significance of inclusion and exclusion in the context of intellectual disability is defined and perpetuated by expressions of a particular socio-symbolic order underpinned by patriarchy and kyriarchy, and subjected to two controlling ethics - an Ethic of Normalcy and an Ethic of Anomaly. Inclusion and exclusion are conceived as phenomena relating to how membership is defined, legitimated, or repelled by concealed, occluding boundaries acting within a patriarchal socio-ethical fabric. The book argues that Ethical Inclusion is only possible through the rupture of these boundaries by a conceptual tool, 'A Transformatory Ethic of Inclusion'. This conceptual instrument of rupture embraces the scholarship of feminist ethics and feminist theology. Such a rupture requires examining the ways traditional ethical frameworks themselves have conceptually diminished and devalued the authenticity of people with intellectual disability. A concept of integrality becomes imaginable. Conceptual analysis is framed using a crafting metaphor of a patchwork quilt which is infused with narrative; and by which, such an ethical exploration is undertaken, and impaired, traditional ethical theorising is confronted and transformed.

The Making Of High Performance Athletes

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Author : Debra A. Shogan
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 1999-01-01

The Making Of High Performance Athletes written by Debra A. Shogan and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.

A study of the ethical dilemnas of producing high performance athletes through use of technology, using Founcault's work on disciplinary power as a theoretical framework.

Medical Humanities And Disability Studies

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Author : Stuart Murray
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-09-21

Medical Humanities And Disability Studies written by Stuart Murray and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-21 with Literary Criticism categories.

Medical humanities and disability studies are disciplines at the cutting edge of innovative critical work in the study of health and disability, but to date there has been no book-length examination of the relationship between the two. Although each has emerged from different heritages, they share many features, from discussing the complexities of embodiment, identifying processes of exclusion and championing user participation, to a commitment to new forms of critical writing. In/Disciplines explores the connections between the two disciplines in detail. It presents a series of provocations about how they interact, the forms their practice take, and their strengths and weaknesses as working methods. With a focus on life stories that give accounts of health and disability experiences, it mixes creative and critical writing in an accessible manner aimed at a wide audience in both Medical Humanities and Disability Studies, and across new humanities more widely. The book asserts that both disciplines need to evaluate and challenge core assumptions if they are to remain critically relevant in the evolving study of social and cultural understanding of health and disability.

Medical Humanities Review

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996

Medical Humanities Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Medical ethics categories.

Free Associations

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

Free Associations written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Psychoanalysis categories.

Journal Of The History Of Sexuality

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

Journal Of The History Of Sexuality written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Sex and history categories.

Annual Review Of Anthropology

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Author : Individuals
language : en
Publisher: Annual Reviews
Release Date : 2005

Annual Review Of Anthropology written by Individuals and has been published by Annual Reviews this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Social Science categories.

This extra-length 34th volume of the Annual Review of Anthropology has been reformatted so as to be easier to read (a two-column layout) and to allow for glossary terms, acronym spell-outs, and sidebars in the margins. Also new in terms of format are annotated references designed to draw attention to key works in a longer list. The Review contains

The Guild Practitioner

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

The Guild Practitioner written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Bar associations categories.