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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 305.908
EAN num: 9780226767321
ISBN number: 0226767329
Label: University Of Chicago Press
Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Page Count: 224
Printing Date: May 15, 2006
Publishing house: University Of Chicago Press
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In Cultural Locations of Disability, Sharon L. Snyder and David T. Mitchell trace how disabled people came to be viewed as biologically deviant. The eugenics era pioneered techniques that managed 'defectives' through the application of therapies, invasive case histories, and acute surveillance techniques, turning disabled persons into subjects for a readily available research pool. In its pursuit of normalization, eugenics implemented disability regulations that included charity systems, marriage laws, sterilization, institutionalization, and even extermination. Enacted in enclosed disability locations, these practices ultimately resulted in expectations of segregation from the mainstream, leaving today's disability politics to focus on reintegration, visibility, inclusion, and the right of meaningful public participation.
Snyder and Mitchell reveal cracks in the social production of human variation as aberrancy. From our modern obsessions with tidiness and cleanliness to our desire to attain perfect bodies, notions of disabilities as examples of human insufficiency proliferate. These disability practices infuse more general modes of social obedience at work today. Consequently, this important study explains how disabled people are instrumental to charting the passage from a disciplinary society to one based upon regulation of the self.
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I recommend this book to anyone interested in the history of ideas surrounding disability - it is not just an application of cultural or feminist theory to examine a grouping but the development of a whole new way of conceptualising disability. I would say it is one of the best books I have read on the subject - although I do also have to add it can tend to ignore the realities of disability and stretch some ideas too far, to be unable to meld reality and theory - but ignoring that it is a stimulating read.
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The book is very profound with lot of historical information and covers wide range of perspectives.
I may use this as a reference book to fill in my research on the disability viewpoints or legal applications for the definition of the disability. Only one page mentions a discrimination by disability and the American Disability Act, which I was more interested in.
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