A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age

Professor David T. Mitchell (George Washington University, USA), Sharon L. Snyder

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English

Bloomsbury Academic
16 May 2024

Series: The Cultural Histories Series

If eugenics -- the science of eliminating kinds of undesirable human beings from the species record -- came to overdetermine the late nineteenth century in relation to disability, the twentieth century may be best characterized as managing the repercussions for variable human populations. A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age provides an interdisciplinary overview of disability as an outpouring of professional, political, and representational efforts to fix, correct, eliminate, preserve, and even cultivate the value of crip bodies. This book pursues analyses of disability’s deployment as a wellspring for an alternative ethics of living in and alongside the body different while simultaneously considering the varied social and material contexts of devalued human differences from World War I to the present. In short, this volume demonstrates that, in Ozymandias-like ways, the Western Project of the Human with its perpetuation of bodymind hierarchies lies crumbling in the deserts of failed empires, genocidal furies, and the rejuvenating myths of new nation states in the 20th century.

An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture, philosophy, rehabilitation, technology, and education, A Cultural History of Disability in the Modern Age explores such themes and topics as: atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health while wrestling with their status as unreliable predictors of what constitutes undesirable humanity.

Edited by: Professor David T. Mitchell (George Washington University USA), Sharon L. Snyder
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: NIP
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 169mm,
ISBN: 9781350436671
ISBN 10: 1350436674
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 16 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David T. Mitchell is Professor of English at George Washington University. Sharon L. Snyder is an independent researcher. Mitchell and Snyder are editors of the Encyclopaedia of Disability, Volume Five: A History of Disability in Primary Sources (2005) and, most recently, The Matter of Disability [with Susan Antebi] (2019). Together they are also co-authors of influential books in Disability Studies including Narrative Prosthesis (2000), Cultural Locations of Disability (2006), and The Biopolitics of Disability (2015).