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

Explores textual representations of disability in the global Renaissance. Elizabeth B. Bearden contends that monstrosity, as a precursor to modern concepts of disability, has much to teach about our tendency to inscribe disability with meaning.

Returns disability to its proper place as an ongoing historical process of corporeal, cognitive, and sensory mutation operating in a world of dynamic, even cataclysmic, change. The book's contributors offer new theorizations of human and nonhuman embodiments and their complex evolutions in our global present.

In 1935, lobotomy was heralded as a "miracle cure" by newspapers and magazines. Only twenty years after the first operation, lobotomists once praised for "therapeutic courage" were condemned for their barbarity. American Lobotomy studies representations of lobotomy in a ariety of cultural texts to offer a rhetorical and cultural history of the infamous procedure.

Explores perceptions of disability and racial difference in Mexico's early post-revolutionary period (1920s to 1940s). The book focuses in particular on the way disability is represented indirectly through factors that may have caused it in the past or may cause it in the future, or through perceptions and measurements that cannot fully capture it.

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.

Looks at young adult novels, fantasy series, graphic memoirs, and picture books of the last 25 years in which characters with disabilities take centre stage for the first time. These books take what others regard as weaknesses and redefine them as part of the hero's journey.

Focuses on a slow racial violence against African Americans through everyday, accumulative, contagious, and toxic attritions on health. The book argues that the targeted maiming and distressing of Black populations is a largely unacknowledged strategy of the US liberal multicultural capitalist state.

Offers new theorizations of human and nonhuman embodiments and their complex evolutions in our global present, in essays that explore how disability might be imagined as participant in the ""complex elaboration of difference"", rather than something gone awry in an otherwise stable process.

Autism is typically characterized as impoverished or defective when it comes to language. Autistic Disturbances reveals the ways interpreters have failed to register the real creative valence of autistic language and offers a theoretical framework for understanding the distinctive aesthetics of autistic rhetoric and semiotics.

Explores the image and idea of facial disfigurement in one of its most troubling modern formations, as a symbol and consequence of war. Suzannah Biernoff draws on a wide variety of sources mainly from WWI but also contemporary photography and computer games. Each chapter revolves around particular images.

Brings a new and exciting analytical lens to modernist literature, that of critical disability studies. The book offers new readings of canonical and non-canonical writers from both sides of the Atlantic. Through readings of this wide range of texts, the study reveals both modernism's scepticism about and dependence on fantasies of whole, ""normal"" bodies.

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

Exposes centuries-old disability myths that still survive today

Examines Germany's most tragic and tumultuous century to reveal how central the notion of disability is to modern German cultural history. This book explores the contradictions of a nation renowned for its social services programs yet notorious for its history of compulsory sterilization and eugenic dogma.

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.

Artists like Blind Arthur Blake, Sonny Terry, Arizona Dranes, and Art Tatum have appeared throughout the history of popular music in America - the list of visually impaired black musicians is long. This book examines the ways that blindness, like blackness, shaped both the music these artists produced and the way the nation received it.

Theorizing the role of disabled subjects in global consumer culture and the emergence of alternative crip/queer subjectivities in film, fiction, media, and art

A collection of essays, that investigate the impact of disability across various art forms - including literature, performance, photography, and film. It covers topics such as the phantom missing limb in film noir, the sale of limbs on the global market, and the poetry of American Sign Language.