This innovative and adventurousbook examines disability in the context of twoareas - subjectivity and sexuality - in which it has been hitherto suppressed. Using feminist and postmodernist analysis,Margrit Shildrickexplores what motivates the discrimination, devaluation and alienation directed at disabled people, andargues that the differencethat disability encapsulatesuncovers apsycho-cultural imaginary that sustains modernist understandings of what constitutesan embodied subject. Where autonomy is the most valued attribute of subjectivity, any compromise of bodily control, indication of connectivity, or of corporeal instability, mobilizes a deep-seated anxiety in thenormative majority that is most acute in relation to disability and sexuality.By critiquing conventional paradigms this study shows howit becomes possible to celebrate the fluidity, unpredictability and connectivity - already associated with disability - and creatively queer understanding of the embodied self.Using an analysis that draws on critical cultural theory, emergent strands in critical disability studies, postconventional philosophy and feminist theories of the body from Merleau-Ponty to Haraway and Deleuze, and social policy and legal discourse,Shildrickargues for the need tocontextualise disability as a matter of ethical import. INDICE: Acknowledgments.Introduction.Corporealities.Genealogies.Contested Pleasures and Governmentality.Sexuality, Subjectivity and Anxiety.Transgressing the Law.Queer Pleasures.Global Corporealities.Conclusion: Thinking Differently.Notes.Bibliography.Index
- ISBN: 978-1-1372-7280-5
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 224
- Fecha Publicación: 07/09/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Desconocido