Books in the Corporealities: Discourses of Disability series

By combining the work of Michel Foucault, the insights of philosophy of disability and feminist philosophy, and data derived from empirical research, Shelley L. Tremain compellingly argues that the conception of disability that currently predominates in the discipline of philosophy is inextricably intertwined with the underrepresentation of disabled philosophers in the profession of philosophy.

Analyzing the invisible abled body through the work of Joyce, Beckett, Egerton, and Bowen

Examines how gender and femininity are performed and experienced in everyday life by women who do not rely on sight as their dominant mode of perception, identifying the multiple senses involved in the formation of gender identity within social interactions.

Brings together disability studies and institutional critique to recognise the ways that disability is composed in and by higher education, and rewrites the spaces, times, and economies of disability in higher education to place disability front and centre. For too long disability has been constructed as the antithesis of higher education, often positioned as a distraction, a problem to be solved.

Examines the proliferation of crippled, maimed, and disabled men in the mid-nineteenth-century novel, showing that disability was central to Victorian narrative form. Karen Bourrier argues that this unexpected interest in masculine weakness and disability was a response to the rise of a new Victorian culture of industry and vitality, and its corollary emphasis on a hardy, active manhood.

A groundbreaking study of the intersection of popular music and disability

Since the 1970s the ascendancy of minority identities based on gender, race, and sexuality has transformed the landscape of cultural theory, embracing greater political urgency and relevance. This book provides evidence of the value and utility that a disability studies perspective can bring to these and other key questions.