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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN-13
9780226767314
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94588524
Product Key Features
Author
David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder
Publication Name
Cultural Locations of Disability
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Medicine, Disability
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
230mm
Item Width
159mm
Item Weight
534g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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