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Author : Matthew Kohrman
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520226449
Annotation A study of the culture of disability in China and the emergence of the government institution known as the China Disabled Persons' Federation.
Author : Matthew Kohrman (1964)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1375299506
Author : Jamie A. Thomas,Christina Jackson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498563871
Focusing on the body as a visual and discursive platform across public space, this book explores marginalization as a sociocultural practice and hegemonic schema. The chapters center upon physical contexts, discursive spaces, and philosophical arenas to deconstruct seemingly intrinsic connections between body and behavior, whiteness, and normativity.
Author : Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791472221
Connects theories of sexual difference to race and queer theories through a focus on “in-between” bodies.
Author : Kristina Richardson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748645084
Medieval Arab notions of physical difference can feel singularly arresting for modern audiences. Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights', as were cross eyes, lameness and deafness? What assumptions about bodies influenced this particular vision of physical difference? How did blighted people view their own bodies? Through close analyses of anecdotes, personal letters, (auto)biographies, erotic poetry, non-binding legal opinions, diaristic chronicles and theological tracts, the cultural views and experiences of disability and difference in the medieval Islamic world are brought to life.
Author : Rosalyn Diprose
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : 0415097827
Diprose argues that the usual approaches to ethics perpetuate the mechanisms that subordinate women, and argues for a new ethics of sexual difference which better locates the mechanisms of discrimination and the means to subvert them.
Author : Sara Hendren
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780735220027
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and LitHub Winner of the 2021 Science in Society Journalism Book Prize A fascinating and provocative new way of looking at the things we use and the spaces we inhabit, and a call to imagine a better-designed world for us all. Furniture and tools, kitchens and campuses and city streets—nearly everything human beings make and use is assistive technology, meant to bridge the gap between body and world. Yet unless, or until, a misfit between our own body and the world is acute enough to be understood as disability, we may never stop to consider—or reconsider—the hidden assumptions on which our everyday environment is built. In a series of vivid stories drawn from the lived experience of disability and the ideas and innovations that have emerged from it—from cyborg arms to customizable cardboard chairs to deaf architecture—Sara Hendren invites us to rethink the things and settings we live with. What might assistance based on the body’s stunning capacity for adaptation—rather than a rigid insistence on “normalcy”—look like? Can we foster interdependent, not just independent, living? How do we creatively engineer public spaces that allow us all to navigate our common terrain? By rendering familiar objects and environments newly strange and wondrous, What Can a Body Do? helps us imagine a future that will better meet the extraordinary range of our collective needs and desires.
Author : David T. Mitchell,Sharon L. Snyder
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Eugenics
ISBN : 0472066595
Groundbreaking perspectives on disability in culture and the arts that shed light on notions of identity and social marginality
Author : Parin Dossa
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802095510
In Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds, Parin Dossa explores the lives of Canadian Muslim women who share their stories of social marginalization and disenfranchisement in a disabling world. She shows how these women, who are subjected to social erasure in policy and research, define their identities and claim their humanity using the language of everyday life. Based on narrative ethnography, Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds makes a case for positive acknowledgement of perceived differences of nationality, religion, multiple-abilities, and gendered and race-based identities. It offers a powerful argument for bridging two disparate bodies of work: disability studies and anti-racist feminism. Most significantly, it shows how racialized Muslim women with disabilities are redefining the parameters of their social worlds and developing a distinctively pluralistic understanding of abilities. This ground-breaking work gives presence to the lives of people who are otherwise rendered socially invisible.
Author : You-lan Zhu,Xi-chang Zhong,Bing-mu Chen,Zuo-min Zhang
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783662067079
Since the appearance of computers, numerical methods for discontinuous solutions of quasi-linear hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations have been among the most important research subjects in numerical analysis. The authors have developed a new difference method (named the singularity-separating method) for quasi-linear hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations. Its most important feature is that it possesses a high accuracy even for problems with singularities such as schocks, contact discontinuities, rarefaction waves and detonations. Besides the thorough description of the method itself, its mathematical foundation (stability-convergence theory of difference schemes for initial-boundary-value hyperbolic problems) and its application to supersonic flow around bodies are discussed. Further, the method of lines and its application to blunt body problems and conical flow problems are described in detail. This book should soon be an important working basis for both graduate students and researchers in the field of partial differential equations as well as in mathematical physics.
Author : Jackie Leach Scully, director, Disability Innovation Institute, University of New South Wales
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780742577091
This book reconceives disability as a set of social relations and practices, as experienced embodiment, and as an emancipatory movement, as well as a biomedical phenomenon. The author brings new attention to complex ethical questions surrounding disability, looking at not only the biomedical understanding of impairment, but also its cultural representations and social organization.
Author : Elizabeth Grosz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994-06-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0253208629
"Volatile Bodies demonstrates that the sexually specific body is socially constructed: biology or nature is inherently social and has no pure or natural 'origin' outside culture. Being the raw material of social and cultural organization, it is subject to the endless rewriting and inscription that constitute all sign systems. Grosz demonstrates that the theories of, among others, Freud and Lacan theorize a male body. She then turns to corporeal experiences unique to women--menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation, menopause--to lay the groundwork for new theories of sexed corporeality."--Back cover.
Author : Moira Gatens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134891627
Moira Gatens investigates the ways in which differently sexed bodies can occupy the same social or political space. Representations of sexual difference have unacknowledged philosophical roots which cannot be dismissed as a superficial bias on the part of the philosopher, nor removed without destroying the coherence of the philosophical system concerned. The deep structural bias against women extends beyond metaphysics and its effects are felt in epistemology, moral, social and political theory. The idea of sexual difference is contextualised in Imaginary Bodies and traced through the history of philosophy. Using her work on Spinoza, Gatens develops alternative conceptions of power, new ways of conceiving women's embodiment and their legal, political and ethical status.
Author : Marja Evelyn Mogk
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780786465354
This collection of 19 new essays by 21 authors from the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia and India focuses on contemporary film and television (1989 to the present) from those countries as well as from China, Korea, Thailand and France. The essays are divided into two parts. The first includes critical readings of narrative film and television. The second includes contributions on documentaries, biopics and autobiographically-informed films. The book as a whole is designed to be accessible to readers new to disability studies while also contributing significantly to the field. An introduction gives background on disability studies and appendices provide a filmography and a list of suggested reading.
Author : Wendy Schissel,University of Saskatchewan. Women's Studies Research Unit
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781552381847
With Home/Bodies, editor Wendy Schissel brings together a diverse range of voices which explore the concepts of home, gender, and identity. Home/Bodies includes contributions by several new-generation feminist scholars and researchers, along with established teachers, researchers, and activists in the academy and the community.